Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

We're all immortal until we die.

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

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.

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.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

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.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

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.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

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.