Elvis Costello Quotes

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death and the tragic.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.

In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.

And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

I think dying is the ultimate high...

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.