Life And Death Quotes - Page 3

• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

  Angela Carter

  Literature, Matter, Pro Football

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• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Death, Rest In Peace

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• Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Life, Death, Fall

  Hilaire Belloc (1954). “The Verse of Hilaire Belloc”

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• Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

  Andre Breton

  Death, Real, Believe

  "Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939". Book by Georges Bataille, p. 41, 1985.

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• Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 6, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

  John Donne

  Prison Life, Going Out, Execution

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.500

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• I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.

  Red Skelton

  Mind, Dying, Peter

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• To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Mother, Struggle, People

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

  Terrell Owens

  World, This World, Knows

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• Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.

  Ken Jeong

  Issues, Talking, Medicine

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• Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

  Mark Twain

  Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

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• Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

  David Lynch

  Struggle, Stories, Kind

  Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2007.

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• Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

  Harold MacMillan

  Fear, Party, Memorial

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• If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.

  Albert Brooks

  Talking, Gone, Way

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• Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Important

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• How people die remains in the memory of those who live on

  Cicely Saunders

  Life, Death, Memories

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• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

  Stuart Scott

  Death, Courage, Art

  "ESPN Sportscaster Stuart Scott Dies At 49". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. January 4, 2015.

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• Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

  Gloria Swanson

  Know How, Knows

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Life, Death, Wisdom

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Best Job, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Dream, Witty

  "Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989.

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