“A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.” HumansBodyGrowthStageEvolutionBirthSixDestructionTransformationHuman Body Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you're photographing is people, bodies.” PeopleHumansBodyLosesTalkingViolenceDestructionSightAbstractFilmmakingHuman Body Author:David Cronenberg
“Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect they are permanent.” BodyFormSubjectsDestructionEssenceDestroyedSubstancePermanentTransient Book:Guide for the perplexed Source: Guide for the perplexed
“The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.” MenFirstsKindBodyEvilSubjectsCircumstancesDestructionGenesis Book:The Guide for the Perplexed Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real, dangerous, to accept that mortality was the end for you as an individual. As an atheist, I don't believe in an afterlife, so if you're thinking of murder, if your subject is murder, then that's a physical act of absolute destruction because you're ending something, a body, that is unique. That person never existed before, will never exist again, will not be karmically recycled, will not go to heaven, therefore I take it seriously.” IfsThinkingBelievePersonsRealEndsBodyIndividualHeavenWishAcceptingFantasySubjectsDangerousUniqueDestructionMurderAbsolutesDon't BelieveAtheistFulfillmentMortalityAfterlifeRecycled Author:David Cronenberg