Mata Hari Quotes

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

People don't live or die, people just float.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Life is wasted on the living.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

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

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

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

The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

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

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.