Life And Death Quotes

Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.''- 'Fine! That’s beautiful. But I wasn’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so let’s drink up and forget it. That’s more my idea.

~ Eugene O'neill

When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.

~ Michael Meade

Too weird to live, too rare to die!

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

~ Suzanne Collins

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

~ Jay Asher

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

~ Libba Bray

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.

~ Anne Frank

If I was drowning you would part the seaAnd risk your own life to rescue me . . .

~ Jamie Mcguire

When I was young” … “Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept gaining impetus, it would get richer and deeper each year. You kept learning more, getting wiser, having more insight, going further into the truth” – she hesitated.Port laughed abruptly. – “And now you know it’s not like that. Right? It’s more like smoking a cigarette. The first few puffs it tasted wonderful, and you don’t even think of its ever being used up. Then you begin taking it for granted. Suddenly you realize it’s nearly burned down to the end. And then’s when you’re conscious of the bitter taste.

~ Paul Bowles

All things that have form eventually decay. -Orochimaru

~ Masashi Kishimoto

If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I'll see you there.I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I'd always wanted. - Nikki

~ Brodi Ashton

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

~ David Clement-Davies

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

~ L.m. Montgomery

Life is beautifully tragic. Giving it up isn't the hard part, it's the living part that everyone struggles with.

~ Allison Blanchard

If your life was complete, you'd be dead.

~ Joshua Wisenbaker

When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

~ Adam Selzer

Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

I am Josephine Darly, and I intend to live forever.

~ Tessa Gratton

Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you’re alone.

~ Stephen King

Losing never come easy. First off, preserved the memories.

~ Hlovate

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

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

~ Oscar Wilde

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

~ Esi Edugyan

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

~ Virginia Woolf

You're still alive. That means you're winning.

~ Rachel Cotterill

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot.

~ Dean Smith

There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.

~ Cameron Conaway

The true terror Jonah thought the true mystery of life was not that we are all going to die but that we were all born that we were all once little babies like this unknowing and slowly reeling in the world gathering it loop by loop like a ball of string. The true terror was that we once didn't exist and then through no fault of our own we had to.

~ Dan Chaon

Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life, for you never know when it'll be your last.

~ Solange Nicole

Life moved, as inconstant and fickle as Wind Baby, frolicking, sleeping, weeping, but never truly still. Never solid or finished. Always like water flowing from one place to the next. Seed and fruit. Rain and drought, everything traveled in a gigantic circle, an eternal process of becoming something new. But we rarely saw it. Humans tended to see only frozen moments, not the flow of things.

~ Kathleen O'neal Gear

You just want to give up, he said when he was able to speak. Only you keep going. You still have to get up in the morning and pour the cereal in the bowls. You keep on breathing, whether you want to or not. Nobody's around to tell you how it's supposed to work. The usual rules just don't apply anymore. He was still talking, but she wasn't even sure if it was to her. When it started, he said, I thought nothing could be worse than those first days. And it wasn't only us, but everyone else you'd see, wandering around like they'd landed on a whole different planet. Instead of just dealing with your own heart getting ripped into pieces, wherever you looked you knew there were other people dealing with the same thing. You couldn't even be alone with it. Like you're out in the ocean and the undertow catches you and you start yelling for help, but then you look around, and all around you in the water for as far as you can see, there's all these other people flailing too. He sat there for a moment, shaking his head. You keep getting up in the morning and knowing this will continue maybe ten thousand more mornings. You wish you were the one who died. How much better would that be?

~ Joyce Maynard

The earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will go, the things made by men's hands will go, buildings will always crumble - only the earth will remain the same, there will always be men on the earth in the morning, there will always be the things made by God's hands - and all this history of cities and congress now will go, all modern history is only a littering Babylon smoking under the sun, delaying the day when men again will have to return to earth, to the earth of life and God -

~ Jack Kerouac

For the very first time Andrew realized that life, real life, had no connection with the way people spent their days, whose lips they kissed, what medals were pinned on them, or the shoes they mended. Life, real life went on soundlessly...ultimately there was no difference between Queen Victoria and the most wretched beggar in London: both were complex machines made up of bone, organ, and tissue, whose fuel was the breath of God.

~ Félix J. Palma

When clouds will become heavier than the land in us led our entire life by the steps of our Destiny, we will understand that not their moments’ rain has darkened the sun of our life, but the failure to be ourselves.

~ Sorin Cerin

If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion.

~ Maryrose Wood

Why was I standing on the street when the window feel out of the building? Why did the bus run over me? Because it was my turn in the barrel, that's why.

~ Ellyn Bache

She promised him she would love him until she was physically unable to anymore and then after when all she could do was hold his photograph.

~ Holly Hood

Personally I don’t endorse the notion of mortality. It’s fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we’re not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule? - Kinsey Millhone

~ Sue Grafton