"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."
― Jean Cocteau
Topic(s):
Death
― Jean Cocteau
More From Jean Cocteau
- "Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death."
- "Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."
- "I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another."
More In Death
- "It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."― Epictetus
- "There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"― Woody Allen
- "It’s necessary to start most work alone. But I’m tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it’s borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate."― Jenny Holzer