Life And Death Quotes - Page 13

• It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. ... What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal - all the pleasures of life, and then death.

  Gilda Radner

  Crazy, Cheesy, Littles

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.

  Gilda Radner

  Nuts, Car, Drug

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.

  Diane Ackerman

  Flames, Effort, Awkward

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• Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

  Rebecca West

  Blow, Destiny, Names

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.545, Open Road Media

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• In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.

  Betty MacDonald

  Country, Mean, Weather

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• Life is real, and death is the illusion.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Real, Life Is, Illusion

  Augusta Emma Stetson, Mary Baker Eddy (1924). “Sermons which spiritually interpret the Scriptures and other writings on Christian science: a history of pioneer steps in Christian science, which led to building "on a wholly spiritual foundation", in obedience to the message from Mary Baker Eddy, discoverer and founder of Christian science, to her "dear brethren in New York", dated January 16, 1909”

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• Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Our World, Hands, Forever

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Reality, Discovery

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• If we don't know life, how can we know death?

  Confucius

  Life, Death, Philosophical

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• Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.

  John Perry

  Jobs, Real, Missing

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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• A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

  George Eliot

  Men, Likes, Medical

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.249, Broadview Press

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• Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Circles, Hunters, Circle Of Life

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• ...I don't understand this gap you see between us, but can't you meet me somewhere in the middle?" "The middle of what?" "I don't know, the middle of tomorrow and forever, the middle of life and death, the middle of normal and paranormal. Where we've always been." I bit my lip, nodding against his forehead. "There's a place for us there, right?" "Always." He put his lips to mine, sealing our own little spot in the world. Together.

  Kiersten White

  Forever, Together, Normal

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• Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

  J. D. Salinger

  Success, Boys, Games

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

  Edward Young

  Death, Peace, Nature

  Edward Young (1823). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem”, p.19

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• I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

  Alfred Bester

  People, Dying

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty

  Cate Tiernan

  Giving Up, Pain, Rose

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Awakening: Book Five”, p.116, Penguin

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• If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

  Greg Graffin

  Destiny, Goal, Design

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• Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Night, Light, Hatred

  "Green Dolphin Country".

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• We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Trouble, Our Lives

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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• ...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Daughter, Regret

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• Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

  Samuel Butler

  Memories, Remember, Forget

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.83, The Floating Press

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• In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Space, Solitude, Eternity

  Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso

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• He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

  George R. R. Martin

  Differences, Steel, True And False

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.432, Bantam

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• Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

  Voltaire

  Spiritual, Moving, Men

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