Anatole France Quotes

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

If a man knew how to live he would never die.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

I was obsessed with not knowing what happened after you were dead. And I sat or kneeled for a whole day with my head against the wall, trying to figure it out. But I couldn't, and I just said, 'Okay.' And then it was nothingness.

I don't believe in reincarnation. I feel like we're here for such an appallingly brief period of time. I believe we each get this one trip, and if we're really, really fortunate, maybe we get 70 or 80 years on Earth.

What is life about? Two things: love and death.

For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation