английские цитаты о смерти

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Mwanandeke Kindembo фото

“There is no death without life. Therefore, death depends entirely on life.”
Нет смерти без жизни. Поэтому смерть полностью зависит от жизни.

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Johnny Depp фото

“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.”
Я не думаю, что кто-то обязательно готов к смерти. Вы можете только надеяться, что, когда она приблизится, вы почувствуете, что сказали то, что хотели сказать. Никто не хочет прерываться на полуслове.

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

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
Одна смерть-трагедия. Миллион смертей-статистика.

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
Вариант: The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien фото
Tupac Shakur фото

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”
Смерть – не самая большая потеря в жизни. Самая большая потеря – это то, что умирает в нас, пока мы еще живы. Никогда не сдавайтесь.

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

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

John Lennon фото

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

Я не боюсь умереть,ибо я не верю в это. Смерть — это как пересесть из одной машины в другую.

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Erich Maria Remarque фото
Malcolm X фото

“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”
Для меня предательство - хуже смерти. Понимаете, я могу принять смерть, но не могу принять предательство.

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Emil M. Cioran фото
Ernest Hemingway фото

“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”
Трусы умирают тысячей смертей, но храбрые умирают только один раз.

Ernest Hemingway книга A Farewell to Arms

Источник: A Farewell to Arms

Marcus Aurelius фото

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Не смерти должен бояться человек, он должен бояться никогда не начать жить…

Marcus Aurelius книга Meditations

Источник: Meditations

Charles Bukowski фото

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
Мы здесь, чтобы смеяться над шансами и жить так хорошо, что Смерть будет дрожать, чтобы взять нас.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Terry Pratchett фото
Robert Frost фото

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
Причина, по которой беспокойство убивает больше людей, чем работа, состоит в том, что люди заботятся больше, чем работают.

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

“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
Необходимо возжелать смерти, чтобы понять, как это хорошо - жить.

Alexandre Dumas книга The Count of Monte Cristo

Источник: The Count of Monte Cristo

Virginia Woolf фото

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”
Я хотела написать о смерти, но жизнь как обычно вмешалась.

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

“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.”

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 фото
Erich Maria Remarque фото

“The death of one man is a just death, the death of two millions is a statistic.”
Истинная женщина не волнуется — она волнует Источник: https://ru.citaty.net/community/translations/15286/?random=1

Erich Maria Remarque книга 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 фото
Erich Maria Remarque фото

“Our knowledge of life is limited to death”

Erich Maria Remarque книга All Quiet on the Western Front

Источник: All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque фото
Isaiah Berlin фото

“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Paul McCartney фото
Gabriel García Márquez фото
Edgar Allan Poe фото

“Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them.”
Сон. Эти маленькие кусочки смерти. Как я их ненавижу.

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 фото

“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”
Худшее зло не смерть, а невозможно умереть, когда мы этого желаем.

Sophocles Electra

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

Sören Kierkegaard фото

“Once you label me you negate me.”

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
Вариант: What labels me, negates me.

Mark Twain фото
Terry Pratchett фото

“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Источник: 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.”
У всех людей есть страхи, но смелые подавляют свои страхи и идут вперед, иногда к смерти, но всегда к победе.

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Источник: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Ian Fleming фото

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

Ian Fleming книга You Only Live Twice

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

Leonardo Da Vinci фото

“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 фото

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Страх смерти вытекает из страха перед жизнью. Человек, который живет полной жизнью, готов умереть в любой момент.

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 фото

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
Тайна любви больше, чем тайна смерти.

Oscar Wilde Salome

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

Stephen King фото

“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.”
И скажу ли я вам, что эти трое жили долго и счастливо? Я не буду, потому что ни у кого никогда так не бывает. Но было счастье. И они жили.

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Источник: The Dark Tower

Jacques Prevért фото

“Laugh at death and die of laughter.”

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.”

Carlos Castaneda книга 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 Cleese фото

“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.”

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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