
“Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.”
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
Nutting.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.”
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
from the 1986 song "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out"
From songs
“One day
Time will die
And love will bury it”
“One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.”
Source: I Shall Wear Midnight
“I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.”
Je ne vais pas mal. Mais rassurez-vous, un jour, je ne manquerai pas de mourir.
Press conference, February 1965, denying rumours that he secretly had a terminal disease
Fifth Republic and other post-WW2
“You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour…”
Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne