Barthes Death Quotes

#1. Mourning. At the death of the loved being, acute phase of narcissism: one emerges from sickness, from servitude. Then, gradually, freedom takes on a leaden hue, desolation settles in, narcissism gives way to a sad egoism, an absence of generosity.

Roland Barthes

#2. The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

Roland Barthes

#3. Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

Roy Hattersley

#4. I waver - in the dark - between the observation (but is it entirely accurate?) that I'm unhappy only by moments, by jerks and surges, sporadically, even if such spasms are close together - and the conviction that deep down, in actual fact, I am continually, all the time, unhappy since maman's death.

Roland Barthes

#5. I'm always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.

Riz Ahmed

#6. Promoting the use of sustainable and renewable rainforest products can help to stop rainforest devastation. The rainforests are much more valuable alive than cut or burned, providing a steady supply of medicinal plants, fruits, nuts and oils.

Chris Kilham

#7. The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.

Stephen L. Carter

#8. In Marin County, north of San Francisco, the search for a safe haven resulted in a new apartment complex - the first, and only, such government-sponsored project aimed at MCS.

Peter Radetsky

#9. We know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

Roland Barthes

#10. As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.

Roland Barthes

#11. Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

Johnny Rich

#12. When I was 5, he said, my family forgot & left me at the fair. I wandered around in the bright sounds & smells of hot sawdust & cotton candy for hours. It was already too late by the time my parents found me.
I haven't been fit for decent society since.

Brian Andreas

#13. Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

Drew Goddard

#14. Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

Roland Barthes

#15. Well ah woke up aboot hauf ten an' ah wiz still pissed fae the Friday night. Oan the table beside ma bed wiz hauf a spliff, hauf a boatle a wine an' a can ay beer. Ah smoked the spliff an' drank the wine fur ma breakfast then rolled another joint tae huv wae the beer.

Stephen Livingston

#16. Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'

Rand Paul

#17. Just because you have been abused in your life ... doesn't give you the right to go out and abuse others.

Timothy Pina

#18. All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.

Roland Barthes

#19. There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day it is no longer an event, it is another duration, compressed, insignificant, not narrated, grim, without recourse: true mourning not susceptible to any narrative dialectic.

Roland Barthes

#20. As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

Johnny Rich

#21. Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

Roland Barthes

#22. In terms of image-repertoire, the Photographer (the one I intend) represents that very subtle moment when, to tell the truth, I am neither subject nor object but a subject who feels he is becoming an object: I then experience a micro-version of death.

Roland Barthes

#23. The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people - each state in joined self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.

Barack Obama

#24. To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought ... ?

Roland Barthes

#25. I believe that we will move forward a little tomorrow but I have my doubts that we will achieve a result.

Angela Merkel

#26. If I think, everything is lost.

Paul Cezanne

#27. To be engulfed: outburst of annihilation which affects the amorous subject in despair or fulfillment. At its best, when it's fulfillment, it's a kind of disappearance at will. An easeful death. Death liberated from dying.

Roland Barthes