Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to die as individuals or as a species. Such a God, moreover, does not invite us to presume we can comprehend God's creation.

I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I can't die but once.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.