Charles Peguy Quotes

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.

I think you die the way you live.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Life was a pre-death experience.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death

Everyone is either happy or dead.

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

He that lives most dies most.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

No one escapes from life alive.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.

To philosophize is to learn to die.