Andre Breton Quotes

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

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

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

You're either living or you're dead.

Life is but a dream for the dead.

Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

Death is only a small interruption.

We die, and we do not die.

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

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

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

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Everything that gets born dies.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

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

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.