Life Death Quotes - Page 7

• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

  Plutarch

  Death, Men, Hymns

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• I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

  Ernest Renan

  Death, Wish, Dying

  "Ernest Renan: a Critical Biography". Book by H. W. Wardman, 1964.

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• If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Death, Men, Dying

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• The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Life And Death, Passing Away, Essentials

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• Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Death, Men

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• Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Yesterday, Alive, Body

  Luis Alberto Urrea (2006). “The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.

  Giordano Bruno

  Lying, Differences, Evil

  "Cause, Principle, and Unity". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.

  Stevie Smith

  Pain, Lying, Thinking

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• Life is the offspring of death.

  Moses Harvey

  Life, Life Is, Offspring

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• I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Death, Thinking, Mind

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

  Samuel Richardson

  Death, Weed, Growing Up

  Samuel Richardson (1774). “Clarissa: Or, The History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Showing the Difficulties that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage ...”, p.229

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• Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

  Hildegard Knef

  Guarantees That, Life And Death, Fear Of Death

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• There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.

  Evelyn Anthony

  Death, Thinking, Way

  Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Tamarind Seed”, p.98, Open Road Media

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• Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Advancement, Rising

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• Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Events, Forget

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.18, Ballantine Books

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• Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Life, Laughter, Rosary

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• Life is a plant that grows out of death.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Plant, Grows

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

  Fanny Kemble

  Oneness, Heaven, Division

  Fanny Kemble (1882). “Records of Later Life”

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• Death hath so many doors to let out life.

  John Fletcher

  Death, Doors

  'The Custom of the Country' (with Massinger) act 2, sc. 2.

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• There is no death. The thing that we call death
  Is but another, sadder name for life.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Death, Names

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• Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Mean, Tongue

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.213, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Doors, Dying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.363

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• A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

  Pliny the Elder

  Death, Sovereign, Human Life

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• one should be afraid of life, not of death.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Life And Death, Should, Afraid Of Life

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• I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.

  Herb Kelleher

  Life Lesson, Scared

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