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title: "2 Life Escape Quotes By Kobo Abe"
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> [“Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing us from behind. Your trouble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/suicide-is-an-escape-from-life-what-is-life-an-escape-from-death-this/)

[Kōbō Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33a/kobo-abe-9863_death_suicide-is-an-escape-from-life-what-is-l_1456307.jpg)

> [Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting for us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing from behind… Once you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/suicide-is-an-escape-from-life-what-is-life-an-escape-from-death-this-2/)

[Kobo Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be0/kobo-abe-9863_behinds_suicide-is-an-escape-from-life-what-is-l_3061371.jpg)

## More by Kobo Abe

> [“People like me who lack something are liable to become spiteful critics.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/people-like-me-who-lack-something-are-liable-to-become-spiteful/)

[Kobo Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [“I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/i-rather-think-the-world-is-like-sand-the-fundamental-nature-of-sand/)

[Kōbō Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [“Injuries to the body, especially the face, are not treated simply as problems of form. We should rather speak of themas belonging in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/injuries-to-the-body-especially-the-face-are-not-treated-simply-as/)

[Kōbō Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [“What we mean when we say "terrible conditions" is conditions which we are aware of as being terrible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/what-we-mean-when-we-say-terrible-conditions-is-conditions-which-we/)

[Kōbō Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [“He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/he-wanted-to-believe-that-his-own-lack-of-movement-had-stopped-all/)

[Kōbō Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [“One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/one-could-not-do-without-repetition-in-life-like-the-beating-of-the/)

[Kōbō Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [“It is manifestly pregnant and has a bulging white belly heavy with its load of kittens.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/it-is-manifestly-pregnant-and-has-a-bulging-white-belly-heavy-with/)

[Kōbō Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness of writing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/many-people-ask-why-a-writer-commits-suicide-but-i-think-that-people/)

[Kobo Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/defeat-begins-with-the-fear-that-one-has-lost/)

[Kobo Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [“Being free always involves being lonely.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/being-free-always-involves-being-lonely/)

[Kōbō Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [“Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/everyone-has-his-own-philosophy-that-doesn-t-hold-good-for-anybody/)

[Kōbō Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [“It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we’re touched by it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/it-would-seem-that-marsupials-are-poor-imitations-of-full-fledged/)

[Kōbō Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [“The suffering of being imprisoned rests in the fact that it is impossible, at any time, to escape from oneself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/the-suffering-of-being-imprisoned-rests-in-the-fact-that-it-is/)

[Kōbō Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/when-i-was-young-i-could-bounce-back-from-things-like-a-brand-new/)

[Kobo Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

> [“If there were no risk of a punishment, a getaway would lose the pleasure.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/if-there-were-no-risk-of-a-punishment-a-getaway-would-lose-the/)

[Kōbō Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/)

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