Life Death Quotes

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?

What is blood but the wine of life?

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

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

A life is not a waste of time

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.

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.

The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.

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.

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

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

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

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

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

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

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.

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

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

No one escapes from life alive.

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

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.

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

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

I'm not playing with death, I'm playing with life.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

Conservative talk radio hosts have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

He that feares death lives not.

To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

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

Life is the offspring of death.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!

Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.