Life Death Quotes

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.

Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

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

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

In greatness, life and death merge.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this.

It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

No one escapes from life alive.

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

Grief shared was grief lessened.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

A life is not a waste of time

Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

What is blood but the wine of life?

In the end, living is defined by dying.

And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.