Guy de Maupassant Quotes

In living we die, in dying we live.

In fact living is dying.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.

He that begins to live, begins to die.

Only death rescues us from dying.

We die, because we live.

Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

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.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

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

Birth was the death of him.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

To live is to die.