Death Life Quotes

Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

Nothing is promised in life except death.

If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

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

For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

Life is real, and death is the illusion.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. Its how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore

The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.

In the midst of a foggy field, the answers are hidden But the impossible journey deems them forbidden. The Reaper of Death, the Angel of Life. They walk together in day and night.

Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

They can send death at once, but life is slower.

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

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

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

Life is the offspring of death.

In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

You have dreamed me into your dream to awaken you from the dreams of life, death and separativity.

There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky.

Thomas Jefferson survives.

Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks.

In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.

I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

Life hath more awe than death.

The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.