Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody... -Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

Alejandro Jodorowsky , Director
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Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean-French film director, writer, and artist. He is known for his avant-garde and surrealistic films, such as "El Topo" and "The Holy Mountain." Jodorowsky's work often delves into themes of spirituality, mysticism, and the exploration of the human psyche. He is regarded as a cult figure and has inspired generations of filmmakers with his visionary storytelling and artistic approach.

Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes to Explore

In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies....
I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun....
Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea a...
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from t...
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time....
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture....
When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side ...
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. ...
Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic....
Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody....

Death Quotes to Explore

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a ...
Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I ...
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death....
I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God....
Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, accepting the criticism of the Pharisees, so the de...
If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy fr...
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, '...
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a...
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry....
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount....