Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying

The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. By contrast, the fact of existence here and now sometimes took on a glorious splendour.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom