Anatole France Quotes

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

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

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

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

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

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.

Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

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.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.