Life / death Quotes · Page 3

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Cold Mountain Son Forever not change I live alone Beyond life death

— Hanshan

“everyone says we live once, but the truth is we live daily but die once!!”

— Twinkle (Sugandha) Varshney

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

— Steve Jobs

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

— Ernest Renan

Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

— Eileen Wilks

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?

— Euripides

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with…

— William Shatner

Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes,…

— Khalil Gibran

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

— Sadegh Hedayat

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

— Isabel Allende

At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all…

— Bill Hicks

When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the…

— Alan Watts

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that…

— Arundhati Roy

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ…

— John Piper

Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not…

— Ramsey Clark

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough,…

— Pythagoras

We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

Disney World?” Ari felt like his head was about to explode. “Disney World?” His gravelly voice rose into a harsh shriek. “They’re…

— James Patterson

Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life,…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are…

— Pope Benedict XVI

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

— Octavia Butler

As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.

— Edward Young

There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.

— Richard Henry Stoddard

The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.

— Rudy Giuliani

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

— Richard Harris

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

— Samuel Johnson

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

— Edith Wharton

Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

— William Mountford

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

— Sigmund Freud

Life: One thing led to another, and before we knew it, we were dead.

— Michael O'Donoghue

Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.

— Robert Fulghum

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

— Leo Gordon