Death Life Quotes

Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life is what you make it, death is how you take it.
-Nate Spears — Nate Spears

Psychology is a subject of life, death, and in-betweens. — Santosh Kalwar

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. — Aleister Crowley

Everyone asks what the meaning of life is, but no one asks about the meaning of death. — Jo Nesbo

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now. — Kahlil Gibran

The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski

Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self. — Sorin Cerin

You're not out for the count until you're dead. — Silvia Hartmann

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Knowing one day, I will be gone, makes me live fuller life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life. — Spiros Zodhiates

Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatest
of them all, because it is the only one that sins against life. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Life was best when standing in the shadow of death. — Alter S. Reiss

His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to accomplish anything. — W. Somerset Maugham

Is there life before death? - that is the question! — Anthony De Mello

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience. — Katy Butler

Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own. — Jason Goodman

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary. — Billy Graham

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

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

When people leave you, identify why they left and think about what is left — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

No tiredness can destroy hope like death can, as the absolute fatigue of life. — Sorin Cerin

I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest. — Kristen Hope Mazzola

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse. — Seneca The Younger

Whose are all these ghosts?" she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine.
"Oh," said Geraldine, "I think they might be mine ... ? — Diane Hall

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree. — Franz Kafka

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit. — Renae Jones

Yes, babies in the womb are human beings, but so what? — MaryElizabeth Williams

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in. — Tupac Shakur

Life is not the end, and death is just the beginning... — Rebecca McNutt

Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life. — Haruki Murakami

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death. — David Blaine

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. — Frank Herbert

In the graveyard built on a garden. The death of Every flower added a little life to the heart of the corpses buried deep inside. — Akshay Vasu

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. — Jean Cocteau

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together. — Jaggi Vasudev

You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower. — Todd Skinner

How short is human life! the very breath
Which frames my words accelerates my death. — Hannah More

When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned. — David W. Earle

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge. — Herodotus

... everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget - the design of life; and good when we are forgotten - the design of death. — Djuna Barnes

Death does determine life. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone. — Homer

Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned. — Meljean Brook

Life isn't fair, but death is."--Hades in The Gatekeeper's Saga — Eva Pohler

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse. — Dee Remy

Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate. — Christopher Moore

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still. — Samuel Johnson

Death is the only real thing from life. — Octavian Paler

The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right. — Neal Shusterman

The noblest life is the one laid down for another. — Jessica Khoury

Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today. — Soroosh Shahrivar

Without being conscious of death, you can't be fully
aware of the gift of life. — Steve Chandler

Death is life's way of telling you, you've been recalled — Josh Stern

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. — Victor Hugo

Is our life not exciting enough? Or do the lot of you just have some kind of death wish? — Julie Kagawa

Your destiny, forever kindred,
United you in life and death
Despite the origins that hindered
You from your loving in good faith. — Tatyana K. Varenko

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death. — Stephen Mitchell

Life goes on. And so does death. — Michael L. Martin Jr.

we came naked into the world and we will exit naked. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child. — Walter Mosley

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope. — Pierce Brown

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

In fact living is dying. — Guy De Maupassant

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

Let me tell you: the only way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own. — Eugene Shvarts

Days become weeks. Weeks become months. Month become years. And years become silence. — Christy Hall

What are you worrying about? You are born to die anyway. — Saurbh Katyal

It is worth dying to find out what life is. — T. S. Eliot

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination. — Seneca The Younger

He was as calm as a god who has seen both life and death, and seen nothing of particular importance in either of them. — William Faulkner

The terrible price of living, ain't it? To live through others dying? — J.D. Jordan

Don't be afraid of going by a way you've never gone - that's the way we're all going ... — John Geddes

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. — E.L. Doctorow

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. — Emily Dickinson

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you. — Marcel Schwob

You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation. — Richard Stanley

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn't become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life. — Shaun Hick

The natives believed in the circle of life which consisted of three main functions or transitions in life, the birth, death and rebirth. — Sally May

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved. — Chuck Palahniuk

Life happens, whether you're in it or not, but death doesn't give you a choice. — Anthony Liccione

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes. — Laurel Lea

When I think of death, I know I have nothing to lose. Living life is only a gain. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Integrity of life is fame's best friend,
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end. — John Webster

Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness. — Tzvetan Todorov

It occurred to him now that people are defined much more by their association with death than by what they do in life. — Karan Mahajan

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one. — Theodore Roosevelt

Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be. — Slade Combs

Life is cruel. Love is a joke. And not even death is final. — Corinne Michaels

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.) — Horace

Life without money seems to be incomplete,but money without life is absolutely useless — ABC

Our ultimate finishing line in life is death! Whilst you have life, work hard and trust God! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

How we face death is at least as important as how we face life. — Ken L. Gould

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Die every night so in the morning you are reborn. — Kamand Kojouri

To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death. — Joe Hill