Paul Virilio Quotes

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

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

Our life is made by the death of others.

I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.

We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.

Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.