Life And Death Quotes - Page 2

• We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

  Yul Brynner

  Love, Life, Death

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• If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

  Dean Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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• The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Life, War, Silly

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• The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Struggle, Inspiration

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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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• Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Leadership, Football

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• Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Death, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.91, Princeton University Press

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• Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Art

  2000 In The Guardian, 31Dec.

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• What we eat is a matter of life and death.

  Scott Jurek

  Matter

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.57, A&C Black

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• Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

  Paul Bowles

  Life, Death, Time

  "The Sheltering Sky". Book by Paul Bowles, 1949.

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• No one, at night, really believes he'll live forever.

  Charles L. Grant

  Death, Believe, Live Life

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• My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

  Bear Grylls

  Moments, Intimate, Source Of Strength

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• Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Life, Death, Religious

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Memories, Grieving

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Maurice MACKAY (1855). “Select Orations of Marcus T. Cicero: together with the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship. Literally translated by the Rev. Dr. M'Kay ... Second edition”, p.138

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• If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Heart, Sea

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.

  Emily Bronte

  Goal, Soul, Endurance

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.133, The Floating Press

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• The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Numbers, Pro Life, Abortion

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• The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.

  Phil Bredesen

  Mean, Differences, People

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• The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

  Dennis Prager

  Men, Essence, Evil

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• Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

  Epicurus

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Death, Children

  John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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• Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

  John Dryden

  Death, Fear, Knows

  'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

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• If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Life Death, Still Life

  Samuel Johnson, Robert ARMITAGE (1850). “Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death. By the author of “Dr. Hookwell,” etc. [Robert Armitage].”, p.478

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• Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Death, Night

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