Juan Ramon Jimenez Quotes

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

The goal of all life is death.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

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

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

We pop into existence and we know that we die and we know that we lose everyone that we love and we know we even lose our own bodies. And what a paradigm. What a mystery.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

We die, because we live.

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

Life, the permission to know death.

In fact living is dying.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.