Guy De Maupassant: Quotes about death

Guy De Maupassant was French writer. Explore interesting quotes on death.
Guy De Maupassant: 118 quotes9 likes

“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”

Guy De Maupassant

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

“One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.”

Guy De Maupassant book Une vie

Source: Une vie

“The only certainty is death.”

Guy De Maupassant Bel-Ami

Source: Bel-Ami

“Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.”

Guy De Maupassant Bel-Ami

Source: Bel-Ami

“We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.”

Guy De Maupassant Bel-Ami

Source: Bel-Ami

“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.”

Guy De Maupassant book Sur l'eau

Sur l’eau (1888)