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Jean Cocteau Quotes

Jean Cocteau quotes about death

French Director, Writer, Poet July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963

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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. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death..."
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. Jean Cocteau
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you..."
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "After the writer's death, reading his journal is like..."
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the..."
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau quote: "The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking..."
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Jean Cocteau

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