Vasily Grossman Quotes

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

I don't intend to die.

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

There's no one who has been living for centuries.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Life can't die. It's a contradiction.

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

If I could only live another century!

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Mortality defines the human condition.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.