"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying." ― Jean Cocteau Topic(s): Death Tags: since More From Jean Cocteau "The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head." "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?" "The poet doesn’t invent. He listens." More In Death "Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."― Carl Jung "Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world."― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley "The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."― Khalil Gibran