Life And Death Quotes

Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

The best of times is now.

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

The tongue has the power of life and death.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

The American empire is hovering between life and death.

If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

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

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.

The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

There's life and death in every email.

If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.