Death Life Quotes

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.

The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.

Love of life at times requires death

Life is as serious a thing as death.

An evil life is a kind of death.

The end of a life is always vivifying.

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.

Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

In death a hero, as in life a friend!

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

Is there life before death? - that is the question!

There's a way of life, there's a way of death. Which way are you on?

The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.

I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.

The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself.

As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port--heaven,-- Friend, what years could us divide?

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.

Life is a death-defying experience.

Life must go on, Though good men die.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.

My life closed twice before its close

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

I've come out of seeing death and chosen to focus on the life that's sprouting everywhere, like flowers. And I want to help feed the flowers.

Erik ! Erik! I saved your life! Remember!You were sentenced to death! But for me, you would be dead now!

Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.

We die, because we live.

We die of too much life.

Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.