Guy de Maupassant Quotes

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

We die, because we live.

To live is to die.

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].

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

In living we die, in dying we live.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

The goal of all life is death.

Death is a very important part of life.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.