Remy de Gourmont Quotes

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

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

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.

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.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

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.

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.