Nazim Hikmet Quotes

If you die, you're not a failure.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

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

I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way.

I do not fear death, as I cherish life too much.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. It is to create something that will.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

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].

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

To conquer death you only have to die.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

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