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Top 20 Derek Jarman Quotes (2025 Update)

Derek Jarman Quote: “I’m not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.”

1. “I’m not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “I’m not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.”

2. “I’m not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema...”

3. “The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema...”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.”

4. “Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies.”

5. “I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “Painters used red like spice.”

6. “Painters used red like spice.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.”

7. “If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.”

8. “Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “Always becoming, never arriving. Life is at a standstill – only ideas flash past. In such confusion I find myself running after them: Hey! Stop! Stop! But they escape, leaving me staring at a grey English spring.”

9. “Always becoming, never arriving. Life is at a standstill – only ideas flash past. In such confusion I find myself running after them: Hey! Stop! Stop! But they escape, leaving me staring at a grey English spring.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!”

10. “Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It’s like an ideal of racial purity.”

11. “All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It’s like an ideal of racial purity.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.”

12. “Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “I wouldn’t wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.”

13. “I wouldn’t wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.”

14. “On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea...”

15. “Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea...”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.”

16. “Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn’t attached to a drip.”

17. “The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn’t attached to a drip.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “How did my friends cross the cobalt river, with what did they pay the ferryman? As they set out for the indigo shore under this jet-black sky – some died on their feet with a backward glance.”

18. “How did my friends cross the cobalt river, with what did they pay the ferryman? As they set out for the indigo shore under this jet-black sky – some died on their feet with a backward glance.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “I am wandering aimlessly in this labyrinth of memories.”

19. “I am wandering aimlessly in this labyrinth of memories.”

— Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman Quote: “How to survive as a reasonably intact human being undamaged by popular preconceptions and misconceptions? It has been a long uphill battle.”

20. “How to survive as a reasonably intact human being undamaged by popular preconceptions and misconceptions? It has been a long uphill battle.”

— Derek Jarman

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