4 Simone De Beauvoir Quotes on Death

Simone De Beauvoir quotes on death

19. One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, 'I will always be here.'

27. It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty.

62. I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

63. It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.