"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 Tags: trying 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." "Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for." "An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture." More In Death "I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one."― Doc Hastings "Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."― R. D. Laing "The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."― Emile M. Cioran