Life And Death Quotes

We all share three things in common: We are breathing, we have a heart, and most importantly we have twenty four hours to live. With those things, we should not have an excuse as to why the dash between our birth and death dates is so much more smaller than the length in which we walked the Earth. We have the air to live, we have a heart to have passion and care, and we have the time to make the change and better world happen.

~ David L. King Jr.

It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where it resides; it has duration yet no beginning or end. Something emerges, though through no aperture - this refers to the fact that it has reality. It has reality yet there is no place where it resides - this refers to the dimension of space. It has duration but no beginning or end - this refers to the dimension of time. There is life, there is death, there is a coming out, there is a going back in - yet in the coming out and going back its form is never seen. This is called the Heavenly Gate. The Heavenly Gate is nonbeing. The ten thousand things come forth from nonbeing. Being cannot create being out of being; inevitably it must come forth from nonbeing. Nonbeing is absolute nonbeing, and it is here that the sage hides himself.

~ Zhuangzi

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.

~ Charles Bukowski

We can learn so much about the living, according to how they treat their dead. And we can see the true colours of people coming out, when we observe how they act and react, to the circumstances that come about after the death of a loved one. Lastly, we learn about the things most important in our lives, when we experience the loss called death. It is extraordinary how death can give back so much to life and to the living.

~ C. Joybell C.

Life is a sweet sour adventure. When you want to go it becomes sweet, when you remain, it becomes sour

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What will be your death note?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As I witness the dead of beloved ones, it makes be become more conscious that life indeed has an end.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do I have anything to lose? This life will be gone one day to the Creator who gave it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life on earth is temporary. May we pursue peace and live in harmony with one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At the end of life, nobody knows where the spirit goes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do we reflect on life? Someday this life will be gone.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life begins at the day of birth. Birthday is a great day of honour.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.

~ Amy Neftzger

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

~ Walt Whitman

That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...

~ Philip K. Dick

It’s a funny thing, one day you’re living and the next day you’re not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don’t even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I’d rather be surprised.

~ Dan Groat

Death does not come when the body is too exausted to live.Death comes because the brilliance inside of us can only be contained for so long.We do not die.We pass on.Pass on the life burning through our throats.When you leave me, I will not cry for you.I will run into the strongest wind I can find and welcome you home.

~ Michael Lee

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.

~ Osamu Dazai

In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting.

~ Osamu Dazai

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.

~ Leo Tolstoy

There is a very, narrow, thinness of line between the living and the dead; actually, it's just a lack of a heartbeat away.

~ Wes Adamson

Does this world feel like hell to you? Of course it does, because it is.

~ Naoyuki Ochiai

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

~ Arundhati Roy

We're always on breath away from something--living or dying--, sometimes it just can't be helped.

~ Heather Gudenkauf

Not accomplishing your Life Plan is a tragic act of free will. It is akin to charting an elaborate vacation itinerary before arriving at your holiday destination, with all kinds of plans for outdoor adventures and intentions to go sightseeing and shopping, but then ending up spending the whole trip in your hotel room ordering from room service and watching television. In a similar fashion the unconscious soul spends a lifetime in the semi-conscious state of Divine Disconnection and then returns home mostly ‘empty-handed’.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

Two Songs For The World's End I Bombs ripen on the leafless tree under which the children play. And there my darling all alone dances in the spying day. I gave her nerves to feel her pain, I put her mortal beauty on. I taught her love that hate might find, its black work the easier done. I sent her out alone to play; and I must watch, and I must hear, how underneath the leafless tree, the children dance and sing with Fear. II Lighted by the rage of time where the blind and dying weep, in my shadow take your sleep, though wakeful I. Sleep unhearing while I pray - Should the red tent of the sky fall to fold your time away, wake to weep before you die. Die believing all is true that love your maker said to you Still believe that had you lived you would have found love, world, sight, sound, sorrow, beauty - all true. Grieve for death your moment - grieve. The world, the lover you must take, is the murderer you will meet. But if you die before you wake never think death sweet.

~ Judith A. Wright

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.

~ Auliq Ice

But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered that it wasn't enough just to think at them: you had to say the words out loud. Bees were the messengers between this world and the other worlds, Pilar had said. Between the living and the dead. They carried the Word made air.

~ Margaret Atwood

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

It isn't discomfort, or dis-ease as he put it. It's this aching, throbbing, god-awful incurable pain - and it's known as life. When will the doctors learn: It isn't death that's the disease.

~ Wendy Law-Yone

The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.

~ David Foster Wallace

No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.

~ Carroll Bryant

When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.

~ Solange Nicole

Don’t complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Then nothing became something, and I was born, and I wrought great havoc in the world in the time allotted to me, and I returned to nothingness

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That's life

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana