Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody else’s.
Mister. Nothing is forever. Only death is permanent. Nothing is forever except what you did to me.
Men’s lives have meaning, not their deaths.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.
Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.
Love is a greater mystery than death.
