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. — Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir : French Writer
Born: January 9, 1908
Died: April 14, 1986
I would rather live and love where death is king than have e…
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to b…
Not even old age knows how to love death. Sophocles…
Love has no age, no limit; and no death. John Galsworthy…
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if w…
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death o…
I would rather live and love where death is king than have e…
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to b…
Not even old age knows how to love death. Sophocles…
Love has no age, no limit; and no death. John Galsworthy…
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if w…
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death o…
I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporti…
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning…
Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear. …
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is…
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die …
If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of his…
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. Voltai…
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be a…
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is …
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that…
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather …
Life should be great rather than long. B. R. Ambedkar…
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scienti…
I am really interested in eccentric minds. It’s rather like …
