Quotes About Death

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live. Sure, you can create a safe life for yourself . . . and end your days in a rest home babbling on about some forgotten misfortune. I'd rather go down swinging. Besides, the less we are trying to "save ourselves," the more effective a warrior we will be.

he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

Every man is a mystery to himself. And then we die, unsolved.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness, to the néant, and it seemed to me that my own death was the only thing left that I could create.

Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.

Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, because only extroverts cry twice; I sat in the silence of that night, that infinite hostility to man, to permanence, to love, remembering her, remembering her.

Maurice once said to me- when I had asked him a question rather like yours - he said, An answer is always a form of death There was something else in her face then. It was not implaceable; but in some way impermeable. 'I think questions are a form of life

Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal.

An answer is always a form of death.

Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.

My only certainty in life is that I shall one day die. I can be certain of nothing else in the future. But either we survive (and so far in human history a vast majority has always survived) and having survived when we might not have done so gives us what we call happiness; or we do not survive and do not know it.

Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

Un raspuns este intotdeauna o forma a mortii - Eu cred ca intrebarile sunt o forma a vietii.

It is not the state of war that isolates. It is well known, it brings people together. But in the battlefield -- that is something different. Because that is when the real enemy, death, appears. I no longer saw any warmth in numbers. I saw only Thanatos in them, my death. And just as much in my own comrades, in Montague, as in the invisible Germans.

moments one knows only death will obliterate.

Viva. Pero viva a la manera en que está viva la muerte.

Fiecare moarte apas? asupra celor vii, fiecare moarte apas? cu povara grea a complicit??ii; fiecare moarte este absurd?, l?sându-i pe ceilalÈ›i cu un sentiment de permanent? vinov??ie È™i o tristeÈ›e f?r? sfârÈ™it.

Limba german? se potrive?te cu moartea a?a cum limba latin? se potrive?te cu ritualul religios.

Alison ma trezea din amorteala, dar Julie ma putea trezi din mormant.

Time is the flesh and blood of death; death is not a skull, a skeleton, but a clock face, a sun hurtling through a sea of thin gas. A part of you has died since you began to read this sentence.

Oh! isn't it stupid, the war?-as if it was not good to be alive. He wanted to say: You can't tell how good it is to be alive till you're facing death, because you don't live till then. And when a whole lot of you feel like that-and are ready to give their lives for each other, it's worth all the rest of life put together. But he couldn't get it out to this girl who believed in nothing.