“Life into death—life’s other shape, no rupture, only crossing.”

“To live, by definition, is not something one learns. Not from oneself, it is not learned from life, taught by life. Only from the other and by death. In any case from the other at the edge of life. At the internal border or the external border, it is a heterodidactics between life and death.”

Jacques Derrida book Specters of Marx

“I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.”

Jean Paul Sartre No Exit

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

“Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. ”

Richard M. DeVos (1926–2018) American businessman

“Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.”

Elie Wiesel book Day

“For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.”

Mervyn Peake book Titus Groan

“Life is only error,
And death is knowledge.”

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright

“The only certainty life contains is death.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

“Is every death on the cross associated with paying the sins of others?”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author