"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 poet doesn’t invent. He listens." "The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth." "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." More In Death "We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to."― Graham Greene "I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."― Willa Cather "The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray."― David Byrne