Honore de Balzac Quotes

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

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

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.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

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

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

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

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

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

The living are more important than the dead.

A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

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