“As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.”
Source: Carnets: 1935-1942
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“Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.”
“I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.”
“Végre nem butulok tovább (I've finally stopped getting dumber).”
“Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition, I can do little else in my present position.”
“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.”
Source: Lake Wobegon Days
“Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.”
“All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.”
Source: Death in the Afternoon
“Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all.”
“I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?'”
“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.”
Source: Catch-22: A Novel
“Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“When you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, you can be sure you're dead.”
“Time marks us while we are marking time.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63
“I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.”
“Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.”
“If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.”
“Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.”
“When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.”
“The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'”