Quotes About Death

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

It takes a lot of strength, a lot of pride or a lot of love to believe that what one man does has any importance, or that life can conquer death.

But this element of failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

Women – the Parcae and Moirai – weave human destiny; but they also cut the threads. In most folk representations, Death is woman and women mourn the dead because death is their work.fn6 Thus, Mother Earth has a face of darkness: she is chaos, where everything comes from and must return to one day; she is Nothingness.

What stops them is that as soon as they give the word "end" its double meaning of goal and fulfillment they clearly perceive this ambiguity of their condition, which is the most fundamental of all: that every living movement is a sliding toward death. But if they are willing to look it in the face they also discover that every movement toward death is life.

Ich muß fühlen, daß ich lebe. Und wenn ich darüber sterbe.

the absolute could be enclosed within the last moments of a dying person.

No existe muerte natural: nada de lo que sucede al hombre es natural puesto que su sola presencia cuestiona al mundo. Todos los hombres son mortales: pero para todos los hombres la muerte es un accidente y, aunque la concozca y la acepte, es una violencia indebida.

Nature asserts itself in the face of Spirit which it denies while assuming it; the individual is again found in the collectivity within which he is lost; & each man's death is fulfilled by being cancelled out into the Life of Mankind.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

El hombre se eleva sobre el animal al arriesgar la vida, no al darla, por eso la humanidad acuerda superioridad al sexo que mata y no al que engendra.

No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de algo».

It is useless to try to integrate life and death and to behave rationally in the presence of something that is not rational : each must manage as well as he can in the tumult of his feelings.

Svakoj ženi bez razlike nije dato da bude posrednik izme?u muškarca i sveta. Muškarac se ne zadovoljava samo time da u partnerki prona?e seksualne organe koje dopunjavaju njegove. Potrebno je da ona oli?ava ?udesni procvat života i da u isto vreme prikriva njegove mutne tajne. Od nje ?e, pre svega, tražiti mladost i zdravlje, jer grle?i nešto živo muškarac ne može da se o?ara ako ne zaboravi da je ?itav život ispunjen smr?u.

Ter a porta fechada, os lábios fechados: mas o meu silêncio proclama ordens.tu não dizes nada, e eu vou ou não dizes nada, e eu não vou. Toda a minha presença é palavra. Avança então, avança no lodo da noite. Decide. Eu decidi a tua morte e não estamos pagos. Mais ainda. Queria pedir misericórdia: não há misericórdia.

E pesando na terra todo o meu peso imóvel. Tu morres. Outros agonizam lentamente, corpos cheios de golpes, a pele colada aos ossos.

Não há salvação. Nem mesmo a embriagez do desespero e a resolução cega, porque tu estás aí, nessa cama, na luz selvagem da tua morte.

Je suis peut-être mesquine mais je voudrais qu'ils meurent tous pour que s'anéantisse la lamentable image qu'ils se font à présent de moi.

Inutile de prétendre intégrer la mort à la vie et se conduire de manière rationnelle en face d'une chose qui ne l'est pas : que chacun se débrouille à sa guise dans la confusion de ses sentiments. Je comprends toutes les dernières volontés, et aussi qu'on n'en ait aucune;

Religion could do no more for my mother than the hope of posthumous success could do for me. Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

It is useless to try to integrate life and death and to behave rationally in the presence of something that is not rational: each must manage as well as he can in the tumult of his feelings. I can understand all last wishes and the total absence of them: the hugging of the bones or the abandonment of the body of the one you love to the common grave.

Kocham ró?e; sÄ… kwiatami uroczystymi, które umierajÄ…, nie wiednÄ…c, w ukÅ'onie.

Je ne tenais pas particulièrement à revoir maman avant sa mort; mais je ne supportais pas l'idée qu'elle ne me reverrait pas. Pourquoi accorder tant d'importance à un instant, puisqu'il n'y aura pas de mémoire? Il n'y aura pas non plus de réparation. J'ai compris pour mon propre compte, jusque dans la moelle de mes os, que dans les derniers moments d'un moribond on puisse enfermer l'absolu.

Dur travail, de mourir, quand on aime si fort la vie.