How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Line). Every time a character talks counts as one line, even if what they say turns into a long monologue. We used Donald M. Allen's translation.
Quote #10
Old Man: "Let us be united in time and in eternity, even if we are not together in space, as we were in adversity: let us die at the same moment..." (535)
The Old Man hopes they will overcome the isolation of death in the afterlife. As we discuss elsewhere, most Existentialists didn't believe in an afterlife. This makes the old couple's dream of conquering the loneliness of death absurd – at least in the play's view.