Karl Kraus Quotes

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 do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Who wants to live forever?

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

I shall not altogether die.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.

Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

Not all of me shall die.

Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

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

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?

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?