Posted by: Stefano Gandolfi
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
I am not afraid of the death, but to die.
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I am not afraid of the death, but to die.
The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.
When we'll die, we'll certainly go to heaven because we have already lived hell in here.
And remember, I'll be there. I'll be up in the air. So sometimes, if you want to talk to me, put yourself in a corner, close your eyes and look for me. We can talk. But not in a wordy language. In silence.
Death is not in not being anymore able to communicate, but in not being anymore able to be understood.
And why not death, rather than living torment?
To die is to be banish'd from myself;
And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her,
Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?
What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?
Unless it be to think that she is by,
And feed upon the shadow of perfection.
Except I be by Silvia in the night,
There is no music in the nightingale;
Unless I look on Silvia in the day,
There is no day for me to look upon;
She is my essence; and I leave to be,
If I be not by her fair influence
Foster'd, illumined, cherish'd, kept alive.
I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom:
Tarry I here, I but attend on death;
But, fly I hence, I fly away from life
At his grave as well to all those on which I cried, my pain was also dedicated to that part of me that was buried in it.
Dying: requires but a brief moment.