Our words contain the power of life and death.

“Language is not unlike art in that words contain values of lights and darks, hues and tonalities, texture and sensuality. Words can paint complex…

— Elisa Lorello

You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person.…

— Robin Hobb

“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.”

— Joan Barfoot

“Perhaps it's right that words contain nothing, or almost nothing. That their content is, at the very least, variable.”

— Valeria Luiselli

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to…

— Richelle Mead

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“Certainly there is life and there is death, but even in death, if we look closely enough, we will find grace.”

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve­ments. These alone…

— Yoshida Shoin

I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

— Alfred Bester

“Apart the lovers could neither live nor die, for it was life and death together..”

— Joseph Bédier

“This is indeed only a game, but it is a game of life and death!” the Reverend John Hollidge of Gold Hill Baptist Church…

— David M. Ewalt

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time…

— Raymond Carver

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

— John Steinbeck

Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.

— Anonymous

“I walk with a dual longing for life and for death.”

— Melissa Lee-Houghton