It is necessary to have wished for death, in order to know how good it is to live.[to Maximilien][Il faut avoir voulu mourir, Maximilien, pour savoir combien il est bon de vivre.]
Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
To die for the sake of dying – I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom![Crever pour crever – je préfère crever de passion que de crever d’ennui!]
Nothing, I knew, had any chance against death.
Fear not Death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.
You’re inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
Thinking you won’t die is yet another side effect of dying.
The aim of all life is death.[Das Ziel alles Lebens ist der Tod.]
People’s whole lives do pass in front of their eyes before they die. The process is called “living.”[Also known as:]It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.
