Quote by Jean Cocteau
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the deat

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. – Jean Cocteau

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Art
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
category

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Category:
Carpe Diem

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

Category:
Carpe Diem

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. – Wayne Dyer

Category:
Carpe Diem

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? – Stephen Levine

Category:
Carpe Diem

Random Quotes

I don’t regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion. – Rumi

Category:
Rumi

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated. – Mike Huckabee

Category:
Faith

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. – H.L. Mencken

Category:
Bores

I am trying to walk a tightrope trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on. – David Guetta

Category:
Music