All Quotes By Tag: Death

“Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world was that for two thousand years the world had been taught that Jews, not Romans, had killed that man?”

“The dream is over only when you have become complacent.”

“Dreams don’t have time. Neither does sleep, nor death. That’s why it is sometimes good to wear a watch.”

“He decides it is better to die in Ireland than in Paris because in Ireland the outdoors looks like the outdoors and gravestones are mossy and chipped, and the letters wear down with the wind and the rain so everyone gets forgotten in time, and life flies on.”

“At the point where he, today’s Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now before his eyes and turned into something trivial and often disgusting.And the further he was from childhood, the nearer he got to the present day, the more trivial and dubious his pleasures appeared. It started with law school. That had retained a little something that was really good: there was fun, there was friendship, there was hope. But in the last years the good times had become more exceptional. Then, at the beginning of his service with the governor, some good times came again: memories of making love to a woman. Then it became all confused, and the good times were not so many. After that there were fewer still; the further he went the fewer there were.Marriage. . .an accident and such a disappointment, and his wife’s bad breath, and all that sensuality and hypocrisy! And the deadlines of his working life, and those money worries, going on for a year, two years, ten, twenty – always the same old story. And the longer it went on the deadlier it became.’It’s as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That’s how it was. In society’s opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me…And now it’s all over. Nothing left but to die!”

“If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it. And I wanted to remember it for as long as I could.”

“Those who say time heals and death resolves are speaking falsely or thoughtlessly or without the experience of loss.”

“Holding him like that moved me in a way I cannot describe, except to say I felt the seeds of death inside his shrivelling frame, and as I laid him in his chair, adjusting his head on the pillows, I had the coldest realisation that our time was running out.”

“The greatest fear, I sometimes think, is that we are trapped: in bodies, in rooms, in time. Or the greatest fear is that we are not – that we can spill wide open. If one is, as Kafka says, dead in one’s own lifetime, the heart thuds a traitorous song: alive, alive.”

“L’HorlogeHorloge! dieu sinistre, effrayant, impassible,Dont le doigt nous menace et nous dit: “Souviens-toi!Les vibrantes Douleurs dans ton coeur plein d’effroiSe planteront bientôt comme dans une cible;Le plaisir vaporeux fuira vers l’horizonAinsi qu’une sylphide au fond de la coulisse ;Chaque instant te dévore un morceau du déliceA chaque homme accordé pour toute sa saison.Trois mille six cents fois par heure, la SecondeChuchote: Souviens-toi! – Rapide, avec sa voixD’insecte, Maintenant dit: Je suis Autrefois,Et j’ai pompé ta vie avec ma trompe immonde!Remember! Souviens-toi, prodigue! Esto memor!(Mon gosier de métal parle toutes les langues.)Les minutes, mortel folâtre, sont des ganguesQu’il ne faut pas lâcher sans en extraire l’or!Souviens-toi que le Temps est un joueur avideQui gagne sans tricher, à tout coup! c’est la loi.Le jour décroît; la nuit augmente; souviens-toi!Le gouffre a toujours soif; la clepsydre se vide. Tantôt sonnera l’heure où le divin Hasard,Où l’auguste Vertu, ton épouse encor vierge,Où le repentir même (oh! la dernière auberge!),Où tout te dira: Meurs, vieux lâche! il est trop tard!”

“Do not leave the world a mediocre when you were born with the potentials for greatness. Do not die a failure when you were equipped with the capacity for success. Don’t die unrecognized and uncelebrated when you could have impacted the world with your potentials and left your footprint in the sand of time.”

“Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat, to learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying.”

“A time will come when either by reason of frailty or death, you will not be able to do the things that you can do now”

“All events and people you have cherished in the past, and all events and people that are yet to happen to you, exist at all times. This for sure beats the traditional concept of heaven!”

“Indeed, men who manage to defeat time by anxiously safeguarding their tomorrow, by not allowing it to stray anywhere from the past, have in effect conquered death itself.”