Life Death Quotes

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.

Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

Where all life dies death lives.

Death is another life.

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

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

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

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

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.

What is death all about? What is life all about?

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.

Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life.

Brief life is here our portion.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.

You die in the middle of your life.

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.

Death is so preoccupied with life, that is has no time for anything else.

Every fear is fear of death.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Probably death is the best invention of life.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

It’s when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I’d assassinated, that I unravel inside.

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

In fact living is dying.

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.