7 Jean Cocteau Quotes on Death

Jean Cocteau quotes on death

1. I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

4. The Louvre is like the morgue; one goes there to identify one's friends.

9. The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

24. You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

26. That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist.

28. Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.

51. 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.