Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

Death is the inventor of God.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

People are afraid to die, and even more afraid to live.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.