Upamanyu Chatterjee Quotes

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It's probably linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

I always know I can die at any moment.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.