Jean Paul Quotes

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

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.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns.

You live you die and death not ends it.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!