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Die Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
- The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
- We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
- I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right…
- Try to be free: you will die of hunger.
- I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for…
- To accomplish nothing and die of the strain
- Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to…
- Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a…
- The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and…
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- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
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- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. — Joan Baez
- When I die I want to go to Vogue. — David Bailey
- Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. — Honore de Balzac