Life Or Death Quotes

• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

  Daniel Keyes

  Fear, Ifs, Nothingness

  David Rogers, Daniel Keyes (1969). “Flowers for Algernon: One Act”, p.28, Dramatic Publishing

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• Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

  Socrates

  Death, Believe, Fate

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• It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Faces, No Fear, Have No Fear

  Jacqueline Cochran, Maryann Bucknum Brinley, Maryann Busknum (1988). “Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Survival

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• I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Important, North Carolina

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• By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations to petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An author cannot obtrude his service unasked, nor can be often suspected of any malignant intention to insult his readers with his knowledge or his wit. Yet so prevalent is the habit of comparing ourselves with others, while they remain within the reach of our passions, that books are seldom read with complete impartiality, but by those from whom the writer is placed at such a distance that his life or death is indifferent.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Book, Passion

  "The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius".

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• I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than the center of His will? Did not He assure me by His very presence that His thoughts toward us are good, and not evil? Death to my own plans and desires was almost deliriously delightful. Everything was laid at His nail-scarred feet, life or death, health or illness, appreciation by others or misunderstanding, success or failure as measured by human standards. Only He himself mattered.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Appreciation, Feet, Evil

  "They Found the Secret: Twenty Transformed Lives that Reveal a Touch of Eternity".

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• Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.

  Vincent Canby

  Clothes, Doctors, Long

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• In the offseason, why can't it be a little lighter? It's not life or death. I try to have a little fun, but all of my comments are true. I don't lie. If they get mad at me for saying something that isn't true, then tap me on my shoulder and say, 'That isn't true.'

  Steve Spurrier

  Fun, Lying, Mad

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• There is life or death in words.

  Iimani David

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• The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

  Bear Grylls

  Lines, Determined, Willing

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• Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.

  Lana Del Rey

  Love Is, People, Dying

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

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• The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.

  Martin Luther

  Saving, Casts

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• We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  War, Blood, Challenges

  Gamal Abdel Nasser's speech to Egypt's National Assembly in Cairo (November 6, 1969) as quoted in The Washington Post (p. 1), November 7, 1969.

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• I first went into samadhi when I was 19. I was meditating in the mountains and had been meditating on a daily basis for several years. Suddenly there was no time or space or life or death or myself or the Universe. I was absorbed in light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Years, Space

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• The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.

  Arthur Adamov

  Religious, Matter, Crisis

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• There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Christ, Virtue, Worthy

  Lancelot Andrewes (1874). “Ninety-six Sermons: Sermons preached in Lent, on Good-Friday, and on Easter-day”, p.120

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• I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.

  Tim Tebow

  Sports, Humble, Thinking

  "Q&A on Tim Tebow’s gridiron faith". Interview with Adelle M. Banks, www.washingtonpost.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under socialism, government officials acquire all the advantages of ownership, without any of the responsibilities, since they do not hold title to the property, but merely the right to use it -- at least until the next purge. In either case, the government officials hold the economic, political and legal power of life or death over the citizens.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Government, Political

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• We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world — of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand. Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have.

  John Steinbeck

  God, Taken, Responsibility

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.147, Penguin

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• I used to scream at everybody at the beginning of my career. I'd get really emotional. I'd project all my issues about my parents and safety onto the executives, so every conversation where they gave a note was life or death and you don't love me.

  Judd Apatow

  Emotional, Careers, Issues

  The ELLE Interview, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Eye, Two Sides

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• A simple right or left can mean life or death,
  Epic fail or nice success,
  Days of pleasure or nights of stress.

  Ka

  Nice, Stress, Rap

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• When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Words You Speak, News

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