Michel Foucault Quotes

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

Part of being alive is dying as well.

Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

We die, because we live.

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

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

Live how we can, yet die we must.

In fact living is dying.

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

In greatness, life and death merge.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.