Quotes About Death

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Peter was struck by the scar's essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: triumph against decay, triumph against death.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

I didn't even want to fuck her, or maybe I kind of wanted to fuck her but I also kind of wanted to die, I couldn't really tell.

from the bureaucratic point of view, a good citizen is a dead citizen.

it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you.

While I was waiting to die, I still had the Journal of Nineteenth-Century Studies.

To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame; I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred; at most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live; and what's more, we continue to export it.

Por mucho valor, sangre fría y humor que uno acumule a lo largo de su vida, siempre acaba con el corazón destrozado. Y entonces uno deja de reírse. A fin de cuentas ya sólo quedan la soledad, el frío y el silencio. A fin de cuentas, sólo queda la muerte.

In contemporary Western society, death is like white noise to a man in good health; it fills his mind when his dreams and plans fade. With age, the noise becomes increasingly insistent, like a dull roar with the occasional screech. In another age the sound meant waiting for the kingdom of God; it is now an anticipation of death. Such is life.

Las relaciones humanas se vuelven progresivamente imposibles, lo cual reduce otro tanto la cantidad de anécdotas de las que se compone una vida. Y poco a poco aparece el rostro de la muerte, en todo su esplendor.

L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir.

Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minutes ; c'est différent.

Nothing - not even death - seems worse than the prospect of living in a broken body.

Et en quoi une vie a-t-elle besoin d'être justifiée ? La totalité des animaux, l'écrasante majorité des hommes vivent sans jamais éprouver le moindre besoin de justification. Ils vivent parce qu'ils vivent et voilà tout, c'est comme ça qu'ils raisonnent ; ensuite je suppose qu'ils meurent parce qu'ils meurent, et que ceci, à leurs yeux, termine l'analyse.