Life & Death Quotes

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.

I can live with death.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

When we die, our bodies are buried. When we live, our souls are buried.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming."

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

The man who regards life as meaningless is not merely unfortunate, but almost disqualified for life.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Our lives teach us who we are.

If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Any stupid ass can die. That's easy. Living is tough.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

We firmly believe there is more to life than money, beer, and sex. We just don't know what it is.

We've got to live. No matter how many skies have fallen.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Life is but a brief moment. The years go by quickly and old age arrives suddenly before we have an inkling. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death's moment nears and they look back at their lives they've lived, they realise they've been happy only during those moments when they've loved.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for.

Blood is the ink of our life's story.

I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

My life is my message.

If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Only those who are fit to live do not fear to die. And none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same great adventure.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Life is just one grand sweet song, so start the music.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

Death is not the worst than can happen to men.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Life is like a Ferrari, it goes too fast. But that's ok, because you can't afford it anyway.

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment...his sense, a dim rushlight. All that is body is as coursing waters...all that is of the soul, as dreams, and vapors.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Death is psychologically as important as birth. Shrinking away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Life is to entered upon with courage.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.