Quotes About Death

I smiled, for now I understood that it was not an obsession with death that Mexicans had after all, but rather an acceptance of it - woven like a thick vine throughout our lives, helping us transcend death itself and compelling us to live even richer, more meaningful lives.

Mon cas n'est pas unique : j'ai peur de mourir et je suis navrée d'être au monde. Je n'ai pas travaillé, je n'ai pas étudié. J'ai pleuré, j'ai crié. Les larmes et les cris m'ont pris beaucoup de temps.

My case is not unique: I am afraid of dying and distressed at being in the world.

But there was a salve for her wound: she could always die now, because she had drawn all her benefits from the apricot trees in autumn. Seeing them was her whole life compressed into an instant's dream.

Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says; "I am coming."

To have died once is enough.

Naked in death upon an unknown shore.

A sudden madness came down upon the unwary lover [Orpheus]—forgivable, surely, if Death knew how to forgive.

His limbs were cold in death; his spirit fled with a groan, indignant, to the shades below.

Death's brother, sleep.

Death twitches my ear; 'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

Death's brother, sleep.

You are going to the fields strewn with corpses, How can I not feel a pang inside? Though I would swear to follow you, I am afraid that green will turn yellow

Death is the enemy…. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death.

Es la posibilidad de la muerte, la proximidad de la muerte, la sumisión al odio deshumanizado de los otros, que hace que esa noche sea imborrable. Para mí, la violación posee ante todo esa particularidad:

Indeed, it is amazing that a religion was founded on the experience of utter shame, of a god that dies the death of a condemned criminal.

the death of Jesus took place in a space where God was thought to be absent. It was a space in which God's revelation would not occur, a place that could not witness to divine glory; it was an anti-epiphanic space, for it was the place of the skull.

a marginal man condemned to death on the cross is Lord ...

Strahopetni umira tiso?krat, hrabri enkrat.

Neputând gândi moartea, nu ne raman, dupa cum s-ar parea, decat doua solutii: sau sa gandim asupra mortii, in jurul mortii, cu privire la moarte, sau sa ne gandim la altceva decat la moarte, de exemplu la viata. Prima solutie ineaca problema in oceanul generalitatilor inofensive. Dupa cum vom vedea, eufemia si perifraza sunt, fata de indicibil, ceea ce aceasta filosofie marginala e fata de incomprehensibil: o art? de a tr?nc?ni pe lâng? subiect.

Ésa es la trampa esencial, aplicar la muerte a los otros por una prórroga perpetua y un aplazamiento. Y eso está justificado por la necesidad de la existencia. Supone perpetuamente este engaño. "Sé que moriré, pero no les creo", dice Jacques Madaule.

Ilustra esta declaración con las palabras de Jacques Madaule: "Sé que moriré, pero no lo creo".2

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.