Quotes by Berger, John

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form >>

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and w >>

Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves be >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

Death is the final wake-up call. >>

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed. >>

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wand >>

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

Berger, John