“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Coming of Age (1970), Conclusion

About Simone de Beauvoir

1908 – 1986

French existentialist philosopher and author of "The Second Sex".

“There is an element of failure in all success.”

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”

“There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death.”

“Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood.”

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“A living dog is better than a dead lion.”

“The life of the dead is in the memory of the living.”