Life & Death Quotes

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.