A Very Easy Death
Simone de Beauvoir
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.”
“The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.”
“Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.”
“When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.”
“Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.”
“But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.”
“Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.”
“She had appetites in plenty: she spent all her strength in repressing them and she underwent this denial in anger.”
“She asked us to raise the curtain that was covering the window and she looked at the golden leaves of the trees. 'How lovely. I shouldn't see that from my flat!' She smiled. And both of us, my sister and I, had the same thought: it was that same smile that had dazzled us when we were little children, the radiant smile of a young woman. Where had it been between then and now?”
“For the first time I saw her as a dead body under suspended sentence.”
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Book Keywords:
death, grief-and-loss, existentialism, aloneness
