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.