Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Life, Death, Sex

  'Le deuxiéme sexe' (1949) pt. 2, ch. 4

• Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Life, Inspire, Dying

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.41, Open Road Media

• 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.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Death, Time, Destiny

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

• History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Ideas, History

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