Suffering and death are the great teachers of mankind.
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.[Der Schlaf borgt vom Tode zur Aufrechthaltung des Lebens. Oder: er ist der einstweilige Zins des Todes, welcher selbst die Kapitalabzahlung ist. Diese wird um so später eingefordert, je reichlichere Zinsen und je regelmäßiger sie gezahlt werden.]
She wanted to die. And she wanted to live in Paris.[Elle souhaitait à la fois mourir et habiter Paris.]
People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.[En dehors de cette unique fatalité de la mort, tout, joie ou bonheur, est liberté.]
Our life is made by the death of others.[Facciamo nostra vita coll’ altrui morte.]
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.[Notre vie rêve l’utopie, notre mort obtient l’idéal.]
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
