Quotes About Death

People died of carelessness, of corruption, of abuse, and yet, in every round of voting, gave their enthusiastic approval to the politicians who made their life unbearable.

To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.

Is it so easy—I thought—to die in the life of the people we can't live without?

How heavy a body that has been traversed by death is, life is light, there's no need to let anyone make it heavy for us

Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death.

The blood spurted from his neck and hit a copper pot hanging on the wall.

El sueño de progreso sin límites es, en realidad, una pesadilla llena de ferocidad y muerte.

It was as if she wanted to take the power away even from the realistic possibility of violent death by reducing it to words, to a form that could be controlled.

But then, in Piazza di Carbonara, from stones she moved on to weapons, and it became the place where men fought to the last drop of blood. Beggars and gentlemen and princes hurried to see people killing each other in revenge. When some handsome youth fell, pierced by a blade beaten on the anvil of death, immediately beggars, bourgeois citizens, kings and queens offered applause that rose to the stars.

o sonho de progresso sem limites é na realidade um pesadelo cheio de desumanidade e de morte.

To be born in that city—I went so far as to write once, thinking not of myself but of Lila's pessimism—is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.

Tiene miedo, dijo, siempre fue así; tiene miedo de las enfermedades y la muerte. Giannì, todas las personas soberbias, todas las que se lo tienen muy creído hacen como si la muerte no existiera.

When some handsome youth fell, pierced by a blade beaten on the anvil of death, immediately beggars, bourgeois citizens, kings and queens offered applause that rose to the stars. Ah, the violence: tearing, killing, ripping.

o sonho de um progresso sem limites é na verdade um pesadelo cheio de fúria e de morte.

I there first felt the impact of time, the force that was pushing me toward forty, the velocity with which life was consumed, the concreteness of the exposure to death: If it's happening to her, I thought, there's no escape, it will happen to me as well.

Quanto pesa un corpo che è stato attraversato dalla morte, la vita è leggera, non bisogna permettere a nessuno di rendercela greve

Y si morir fuera un querer despertar y un no despertar nunca?

Él sabía que el porvenir era un retroceder veloz hacia la muerte y la muerte, el estado perfecto, el momento precioso en que el hombre recupera plenamente su otra memoria.

El olor de la muerte es inconfundible; es un olor a cuerpo sin alma. Las pequeñas cabezas de muñecas, los carritos de niños, las partituras de música, el almanaque, los restos de múltiples colchones, ropas desperdigadas, sólo el teclado de un piano, tendido de fatiga sobre la tierra, todo ello conforma el lenguaje de los escombros.

Un joven es siempre una incógnita. Matarlo es matar la posibilidad del misterio, todo lo que hubiera podido ser, su extraordinaria riqueza, su complejidad. •José Soriano Muñoz, maestro de la Escuela Wilfrido Massieu

In waking life (just now), if I read his face like a card there is a reversal of fortunes, for I am the body he did not help, and when a body dies we can no longer study the hynger paths so that when I speak of him, instead of saying "father", I must say "your father" or "this man I knew" or "this dead man's eyebrow." What is a dead man? What does a dead man?

In waking life (just now), if I read his face like a card there is a reversal of fortunes, for I am the body he did not help, and when a body dies we can no longer study the hunger paths so that when I speak of him, instead of saying "father," I must say "your father" or "this man I knew" or "this dead man's eyebrow." What is a dead man? What does a dead man?

Samo te smrt može sprije?iti da se posvetiš umjetnosti.

terwijl de mannen mooi rijpen en ouder beginnen te worden en zich te goed doen aan de alcohol - die moet hen sterk en kankerloos houden -, duurt de doodstrijd van hun vrouwen vaak jaren en jaren, vaak ook nog zo lang dat ze de doodsstrijd van hun dochters kunnen meemaken. de vrouwen beginnen hun dochters te haten en willen hen zo gauw mogelijk ook laten sterven als zij zelf eens zijn gestorven, daarom: man gezocht.