mortality Quotes

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.