Life / death Quotes

A good death does honour to a whole life.

— Petrarch

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Life hath more awe than death.

— Philip James Bailey

Life can only be understood backwards.

— Mackenzie Astin

Men die and they are not happy.

— Albert Camus

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

— Marlene Dietrich

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

— Jimi Hendrix

Death is another life.

— Philip James Bailey

It's important to do things that scare you to death!

— Reese Witherspoon

Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death.

— Joseph Campbell

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.

— Janet Morris

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

— Countee Cullen

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

— Sigmund Freud

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of…

— Seneca the Younger

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

— Heraclitus

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

— Franz Grillparzer

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

— Roger Rosenblatt

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

— Anthony Lawlor

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is…

— Albert Camus

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share…

— Robert Jeffress

Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws…

— Rudolf Virchow

This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh!…

— John L. Balderston

What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one…

— Ernest Becker

What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us…

— William James

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think death is not simply the last few moments of life, death is something that runs throughout the whole of life.…

— Kevin Hart

At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I…

— Delmore Schwartz

Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to…

— Terry Pratchett

This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually…

— Pope Benedict XVI

By turns sad and uplifting, Life in the Valley of Death tells the amazing tale of Alan Rabinowitz's courageous and spirited efforts…

— Thant Myint-U

The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and…

— George Eliot

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin