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Quote of Bertolt Brecht - Don't be afraid of death so...


Biography - Bertolt Brecht:

German poet and playwright.
Born: 1898 - Died: 1956
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Fürchtet doch nicht so sehr den Tod und mehr das unzulängliche Leben.

French
Ne craignez pas ainsi la mort et craignez davantage la vie insuffisante !




See also 

See also...



As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

A useless life is an early death.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.




Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: death


Quotes

Quotes about death:


The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.





Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.





Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.





A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.





After your death you will be what you were before your birth.





Neither the sun nor death can be looked at without winking.











Quotes

Bertolt Brecht also said...


Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.





But the most beautiful of all doubts
Is when the downtrodden and despondent raise their heads and
Stop believing in the strength
Of their oppressors.






Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.





Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something.





Therefore, I beg you, do not let yourself become angry
For every creature needs the help of all.






Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes!
Galileo: No. Unhappy the land that needs heroes.













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