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Quotes About Death

Acuérdate del trato que hicimos. Cuando yo muera, todo lo que es mío será tuyo…-menos los sueños.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that." Professor
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
No se puede entender nada de la vida hasta que uno entiende la muerte.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sólo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió. [...] No se puede entender nada de la vida hasta que uno no entiende la muerte.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Ninguém entende nada da vida enquanto não entender a morte.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The territory of humans is life. Death does not belong to us.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Dopóki nie zrozumiesz Å›mierci, nie zrozumiesz ?ycia.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
La muerte tiene estas cosas: a todo el mundo le despierta la sensiblería. Frente a un ataúd, todos vemos sólo lo bueno o lo que queremos ver.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I've never been one for naps. What I go for is insomnia elevated to an art form. I'll catch up on sleep when I die.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours, Julián,' he would say. 'Except my dreams.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When he noticed that the patient was awake, he smiled at him. Are you a God or the devil? the dying man once asked him. The stranger shrugged and thought about it. A bit of both, he answered at last. In principle, I'm an atheist, the patient informed him. Although in fact I have a lot of faith, Like so many. Rest now, my friend. Heaven can wait. And hell is too small for you.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Ce monde ne mourra pas d'une bombe atomique, comme le disent les journaux, il mourra de rire, de banalité, en transformant tout en farce et, de plus, en mauvaise farce.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Dumneavoastr? v-aÅŸ putea spune c? e inima, îns? ceea ce-l ucide e singur?tatea. Amintirile sunt mai rele decât gloanÈ›ele.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Those were the days when Barcelona newspapers were steeped in reports warning that people were being killed in the streets. Unions for hired gunmen were doing well. Life was still as worthless as ever, but death had never been so cheap.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I said Julián passed away. In Paris. Soon after he got there. He would have done better joining the army.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Who said anything about hospitals? That's where people die. Hospitals are statistically the most dangerous places in the world.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
La fe es una respuesta instintiva a aspectos de la existencia que no podemos explicar de otro modo, bien sea el universo, la certeza de la muerte, el misterio del origen de las cosas o el sentido de nuestra vida. Son aspectos elementales de extraordinaria sencillez.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A stroke saw him off on All Souls' Night, with a Cuban cigar in his lips and a twenty-five-year-old on his lap. What a way to go.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
En mi mundo, la muerte era una mano anónima e incomprensible, un vendedor a domicilio que se llevaba madres, mendigos o vecinos nonagenarios como si se tratase de una lotería del infierno.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours…" "…except your dreams.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred, that death could be dressed in a uniform or a raincoat, queue up at a cinema, laugh in bars, or take his children out for a walk to Ciudadela Park in the morning...
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon