Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Life can't die. It's a contradiction.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

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

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

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

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?

The living are more important than the dead.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

I fear not living fully.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope.

Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.