Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

To live is to die.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I think living in a way that's close to nature makes you feel like that - makes you feel how thin the veil is between life and death.

We are an episode between two oblivions.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

I started thinking about how life is a lot like getting pushed out of a plane. You didn't ask to be here, none of us did. But we're all careening through space towards an eventual end that no one's gonna be able to put off. That's the only thing that's definite, this impact. So I started to think about how a lot of us fall at an incredible velocity, and it's over in the blink of an eye.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

He that begins to live, begins to die.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm talking about shedding skin. I'm talking about rebirth, ultimately, and how we continue to change as human beings and continue to grow. There's that great Henry Miller quote, "All growth is a leap in the dark."

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.