Jean Giraudoux Quotes

I am scared of death.

I am dying, Egypt, dying.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

When you dead, you dead.

And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears to be true. It not only appears to be true but also seems like the cardinal truth of life - it appears as if the whole of life is surrounded by death. Whether we forget about it, or become oblivious to it, everywhere death remains close to us. Death is even closer to us than our own shadow.

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

Death is the end of every worldly pain.

Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.

Death is the loss of everything all at once.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

To die is landing on some distant shore.

We tell ourselves zombie stories to remind us we shouldn't live beyond the natural boundaries of life - or seek a third stage of life in this world.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

Death is a fearful thing.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.