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Mwanandeke Kindembo fotka

“There is no death without life. Therefore, death depends entirely on life.”
Bez života niet smrti. Preto smrť úplne závisí od života.

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Johnny Depp fotka

“I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.”
Nemyslím si, že je niekto nevyhnutne pripravený na smrť. Môžete len dúfať, že keď sa priblíži, budete mať pocit, že ste povedali všetko, čo ste chceli. Nikto nechce umrieť uprostred nedopovedanej vety.

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
Joseph Stalin fotka

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
Jediná smrť je tragédia; milión úmrtí je štatistika.

Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Variants: One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic.
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
When one dies, it is a tragedy. When a million die, it is a statistic.
In Портрет тирана (1981) (Portrait of a Tyrant), Soviet historian Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko attributes the following version to Stalin: "When one man dies it's a tragedy. When thousands die it's statistics." This is the alleged response of Stalin during the 1943 Tehran conference when Churchill objected to an early opening of a second front in France.<!-- The book appears to have a footnote sourceing the claim, but I couldn't access it. Could someone please try to scare up a paper copy and have a look at footnote 188? -->
In her review "Mustering Most Memorable Quips" of Konstantin Dushenko's 1997 Dictionary of Modern Quotations (Словарь современных цитат: 4300 ходячих цитат и выражений ХХ века, их источники, авторы, датировка), Julia Solovyova states: "Russian historians have no record of the lines, 'Death of one man is a tragedy. Death of a million is a statistic,' commonly attributed by English-language dictionaries to Josef Stalin."
This quotation may originate from "Französischer Witz" (1925) by Kurt Tucholsky: "Darauf sagt ein Diplomat vom Quai d'Orsay: «Der Krieg? Ich kann das nicht so schrecklich finden! Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!»" ("To which a Quai d'Orsay diplomat replies: «The war? I can't find it so terrible! The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!»")
Another possible source or intermediary may be the concluding words of chapter 8 of the 1956 novel The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque: "Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik." ("But probably the reason is that one dead man is death—and two million are only a statistic." 1958 Crest Book reprint)
Mary Soames (daughter of Churchill) claims to have overheard Stalin deliver a variant of the quote in immediate postwar Berlin (Remembrance Sunday Andrew Marr interview BBC 2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hP2tpw9XEw
See also Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist, 1939: "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god."
In an interview given for the 1983 three-part documentary Der Prozeß by Norddeutscher Rundfunk on the Third Majdanek trial, Simon Wiesenthal attributes the quote to the unpublished auto-biography of Adolf Eichmann. According to Wiesenthal, Eichmann had been asked by another member of the Reich Main Security Office during WWII what they should answer would they be questioned after the war about the millions of dead Jews they were responsible for, to which Eichmann according to his own testimony had replied with the quote.
Misattributed
Varianta: The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien fotka

“Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment, for even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
Mnohí, ktorí žijú, si zaslúžia smrť. Niektorí, ktorí zomrú, si zaslúžia život. Môžete im ho dať? Tak nebuďte príliš horliví pri vyjednávaní so smrťou, lebo ani tí najmúdrejší nevidia všetky konce.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
Tupac Shakur fotka

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”
Smrť nie je najväčšou stratou v živote. Najväčšou stratou je to, čo zomrie v nás, kým sme stále nažive. Nikdy sa nevzdávajte.

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Varianta: Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

John Lennon fotka

“I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car, and into another.”

Nebojím sa smrti, pretože na ňu neverím. Je to len vystúpenie z jedného auta a nasadnutie do druhého.

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Erich Maria Remarque fotka

“With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.”
Zaslepenými očami som hľadel na oblohu, na sivú, nekonečnú oblohu šialeného boha, ktorý stvoril život a smrť pre svoje pobavenie.

Erich Maria Remarque kniha Three Comrades

Zdroj: Three Comrades

Malcolm X fotka

“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”
Pre mňa je zrada horšia ako smrť. Vedel by som si totiž predstaviť smrť, ale nedokázal by som si predstaviť zradu.

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Emil M. Cioran fotka

“We must live, you used to say, as if we were never going to die. - Didn't you know that's how everyone lives, including those obsessed with Death?”
Hovorieval si, že musíme žiť, akoby sme nikdy nemali zomrieť. - Nevedel si, že tak žijú všetci, vrátane tých, ktorí sú posadnutí smrťou?

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

Ernest Hemingway fotka

“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”
Zbabelci zomierajú tisíckrát, ale odvážni len raz.

Ernest Hemingway kniha A Farewell to Arms

Zdroj: A Farewell to Arms

Marcus Aurelius fotka
Charles Bukowski fotka

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
Sme tu preto, aby sme sa smiali na blbostiach a žili naše životy tak dobre, že sa aj smrť bude chvieť, keď si po nás príde.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Terry Pratchett fotka

“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)”
Ľudské bytosti robia život tak zaujímavým. Podarilo sa im vymyslieť nudu vo vesmíre plnom zázrakov.

Terry Pratchett kniha Hogfather

Zdroj: Hogfather

Robert Frost fotka

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
Dôvod prečo starosti zabíjajú viac ľudí ako práca, je ten, že viac ľudí si robí starosti, ako pracuje.

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Alexandre Dumas fotka

“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
Je potrebné si priať smrť, aby sme vedeli, aké dobré je žiť.

Alexandre Dumas kniha The Count of Monte Cristo

Zdroj: The Count of Monte Cristo

Virginia Woolf fotka

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”
Chcel som písať o smrti, lenže ako zvyčajne sa do toho vmiesil život.

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien fotka

“If you really come down to any large story that interests people – holds the attention for a considerable time … human stories are practically always about one thing, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death.”
Ak sa dostaneme k nejakému veľkému príbehu, ktorý zaujíma ľudí - to znamená, že udrží ľudskú pozornosť na istú dobu. . . Ľudské príbehy sú prakticky vždy o tej istej veci, však? O smrti. O nevyhnutnosti zomierania.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works

Tolkien in Oxford (1968) http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/12237.shtml, a BBC 2 television documentary (at 21:49)

Jean Cocteau fotka

“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.”
Všetko, čo človek v živote robí, dokonca aj láska, sa odohráva v rýchliku, ktorý sa rúti k smrti.

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Opium (1929)

Erich Maria Remarque fotka

“The death of one man is a just death, the death of two millions is a statistic.”
Smrť jedného človeka je spravodlivá smrť; smrť dvoch miliónov je štatistika.

Erich Maria Remarque kniha The Black Obelisk

Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.
Der schwarze Obelisk (1956)
A variant of this quote "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic." has also been attributed to Joseph Stalin, but no source for this has been found. This version appeared in the English press not later than 1958. (Ремарк, Эрих Мария // Словарь современных цитат / составитель К. В. Душенко — Москва: изд-во «Эксмо», 2006)

Charles Bukowski fotka

“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”
V ľavom vrecku nosím smrť. Niekedy si ju vytiahnem a porozprávam sa s ňou: „Ahoj zlato, ako sa máš? Kedy sa za mnou zastavíš? Budem pripravený."

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Erich Maria Remarque fotka

“Our knowledge of life is limited to death”
Naše poznanie života je obmedzené smrťou.

Erich Maria Remarque kniha All Quiet on the Western Front

Zdroj: All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque fotka

“Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.”
Život je choroba a smrť začína narodením. Každé vydýchnutie a každý tep srdca je zároveň tak trochu umieraním - malým krôčikom ku koncu.

Erich Maria Remarque kniha Three Comrades

Zdroj: Three Comrades

Isaiah Berlin fotka

“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
Sloboda vlkov znamená smrť pre ovce.

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Paul McCartney fotka

“Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.”
Smútok nie je smútok. Je to šťastie v čiernom kabáte. Slzy nie sú slzy. Sú to guľôčky smiechu namočené v soli. Smrť nie je smrť. Je to život, ktorý skočil z vysokého útesu.

Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer

Zdroj: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999

Gabriel García Márquez fotka

“Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”
Každý človek je pánom svojej smrti a všetko, čo môžeme urobiť, keď príde jeho čas, je pomôcť mu zomrieť bez strachu z bolesti.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
Edgar Allan Poe fotka

“Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them.”
Spánok. Tie malé kúsky smrti. Ako ich nenávidím.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic

Various forms of this quote are attributed to Poe, primarily by a title card in the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, though there is no record of his having ever said it.
Misattributed

Sophocles fotka

“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”
Smrť nie je to najhoršie zlo, ale skôr to, keď chceme zomrieť a nemôžeme.

Sophocles Electra

Electra, 1007.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Sören Kierkegaard fotka

“Once you label me you negate me.”
Keď ma stigmatizujete, popriete ma.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

As attributed in Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, Vol. 2 (1976) by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33; no earlier incidents have been located.
Variants:
When you label me, you negate me.
As attributed in Inner Joy (1985) by Kory Bloomfield, p 169
Disputed
Varianta: What labels me, negates me.

Mark Twain fotka

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
Nebojím sa smrti. Umrel som už milióny a miliardy rokov predtým, ako som sa narodil, a nemal som z toho žiadne nepríjemnosti.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Terry Pratchett fotka

“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
Nepovažuj to za smrť, povedala Smrť. Považuj to za skorý odchod, aby si sa vyhol náhleniu sa.

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Zdroj: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”
Všetci ľudia majú strach, ale odvážni ho odkladajú a idú vpred, niekedy až k smrti, ale vždy k víťazstvu.

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Zdroj: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Ian Fleming fotka

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.”

Žiješ len dvakrát: Raz, keď sa narodíš a raz, keď sa pozrieš smrti do tváre.

Ian Fleming kniha You Only Live Twice

Zdroj: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 11 : Anatomy Class

Leonardo Da Vinci fotka

“As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

Mark Twain fotka

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Strach zo smrti je následkom strachu zo života. Človek, ktorý žije naplno, je pripravený zomrieť kedykoľvek.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Not by Twain, but from Edward Abbey's A Voice Crying In The Wilderness (1989).
Misattributed

Oscar Wilde fotka

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
Tajomstvo lásky je väčšie ako tajomstvo smrti.

Oscar Wilde Salome

le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort.
Zdroj: Salomé (1893)

Stephen King fotka

“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
A poviem vám, že títo traja žili šťastne až kým neumreli? Nepoviem, pretože tomu tak nikdy nie je. Ale boli šťastní a žili.

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Zdroj: The Dark Tower

Jacques Prevért fotka

“Laugh at death and die of laughter.”
Smejte sa smrti a zomrite od smiechu.

Jacques Prevért (1900–1977) French poet, screenwriter

Attributed

“A warrior thinks of his death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.”
Bojovník myslí na svoju smrť, keď sa veci stanú nejasnými. Myšlienka na smrť je to jediné, čo upokojuje nášho ducha.

Carlos Castaneda kniha The Wheel of Time

The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

John Galsworthy fotka

“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”
Láska nepozná vek ani hranice, ani smrť.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) English novelist and playwright
John Cleese fotka

“Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.”
Technológia ma na smrť desí. Navrhujú ju inžinieri, aby urobili dojem na iných inžinierov, a vždy sa k nej dodávajú návody, ktoré napísali inžinieri pre iných inžinierov - preto takmer žiadna technológia nikdy nefunguje.

John Cleese (1939) actor from England

BBC interview http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/11/20/john_cleese_die_another_day_interview.shtml on Die Another Day (20 November 2002)]

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