“Even if you live to one hundred, you’ll still be dead forever.”

“It won’t be forever. You’ll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you’ll come out.”

“You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.”

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

“A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf near three centuries dead;
They followed still his crooked way
And lost a hundred years a day;
For thus such reverence is lent
To well-established precedent.”

“Poetry is not a mere shuffling of dead words or even a corralling of live ones.”

“What a disgrace to live at the beginning of the 20th century. … One is always influenced by one's own time. And ours is that of Sarah Bernhardt and Rostand. Things will be much better in another ten years. You will see a new art born, new and beautiful. You will see that, but I shall not. I shall be dead. But … Sarah Bernhardt will live forever, and go on playing L'AIGLON forever!”

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”

“Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.”

“If we're just a thousand, then, here I am! Even if
They're just a hundred, still I face Sylla;
If ten still stand, I'll be the tenth;
And if there is only one left, I'll be this one!”