Derek Jarman Quotes

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

Men, Turn, Straight

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
Derek Jarman

Love, Gay, Word

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.
Derek Jarman

Death, Afraid, Dying

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
Derek Jarman

Pain, Cannot, Away

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Derek Jarman

Ambition, Illusion, Delusion

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

Sex, Decision, Law

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Biography

Nationality: British

Born: January 31, 1942

Died: February 19, 1994

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