Life To Death Quotes

22 quotes from 16 authors

When life and death intersect, the words we turn to often act as a mirror for our own uncertainty. This selection of 22 quotes, drawn from 16 different voices, captures the tension, the comfort, and the stark honesty that arise when we contemplate the fragile line between beginnings and endings.

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I love life. I love life to death.

Emmanuelle Riva

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I'm not scheduling my entire life to death in order to be able do the work I've got to do. So at…

Michelle Gomez

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“What's so ludicrous about Rafael wanting to travel?' 'He has a life here. He's a Bancroft, for God's sake.' 'I believe he…

Suzanne Enoch

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To the memory of my loved ones that lost the battle of life to death, I want you to know that I…

Usman Ismaheel

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Feel the wind. This wind blows from world to world and from life to death. This is the wind of dharma. Be…

Frederick Lenz

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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

Ludwig von Mises

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“You have both contested well: the one is forced by his sorrow to lament, the other by the plaintiff’s attack to tell…

Johannes Von Saaz

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“The fact is that there are two traditions of explanation that march side by side in the ascent of man. One is…

Jacob Bronowski

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I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death…

Jack Kerouac

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The Goddess is the Encircler, the Ground of Being; the God is That-Which-Is-Brought-Forth, her mirror image, her other pole. She is the…

Starhawk

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I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot…

Bryan Batt

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The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to…

Lauren Oliver

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Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days…

Lauren Oliver

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“Look, the unseen bade him, the voice which now communicated with him who was the greatest of mankind, Septimus, lately taken from…

Virginia Woolf

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The gift of life is death, and we'll carry this burden. The curse, of being human, is mortality the reminder that with…

Jeremy Limn

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The gift of life is death, and we'll carry this burden. The curse, of being human, is mortality the reminder that with…

Jeremy Limn

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“I could hear and indescribable seething roar which wasn't which wasn't in my ear but everywhere and had nothing to do with…

Jack Kerouac

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“And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete…

Jack Kerouac

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“And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was a complete…

Jack Kerouac

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I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me…

Michael Cunningham

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I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of…

Olivo Barbieri

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“I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember especially because the transitions from life to…

Jack Kerouac

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