Life And Death Quotes

Dear friend, I have searched all nightthrough each burnt paper,but I fear I will never findthe formula to let you die

~ Leonard Cohen

I have spent much of my life around death. I have sat with people as they died. I have listened to others relate near-death experiences. I have studied theology and am aware of what scriptures and religions say about life and death. And I have come to the conclusion that death is not to be feared. Moreover, when it is time for me to move out of this tenement in which I am housed, I intend to look forward to it joyfully.

~ Steve Goodier

I’ve never known anyone who was saved who did not first save herself.

~ Wendy Wunder

We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

~ Iris Murdoch

Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble.

~ H. Rider Haggard

Life is but a breath.The end of life is the last breath of a man.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Two puzzles that cannot be solved:The miracle of birth and misery of death.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Joe knew what the nod meant-this was why they became outlaws. To live moments the insurance salesman of the world, the truck drivers, and lawyers and bank tellers and carpenters and realtors would never know. Moments in a world without nets-none to catch you and none to envelop you. Joe looked at Dion and recalled what he’d felt after the first time they’d knocked over that newsstand on Bowdoin Street when they were thirteen years old, We will probably die young.

~ Dennis Lehane

When I look back all is flux, without beginning and flowing towards no end, or none that I shall experience, except as a final full stop. The items of flotsam that I choose to salvage from the general wreckage—and what is a life but a gradual shipwreck?—may take on an aspect of inevitability when I put them on display in their glass showcases, but they are random; representative, perhaps, perhaps compellingly so, but random nonetheless.

~ John Banville

peace of mind and heartarriveswhen we accept what is:having beenborn into thisstrange lifewe must acceptthe wasted gamble of ourdaysand take some satisfaction inthe pleasure ofleaving it allbehind.

~ Charles Bukowski

Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is connected to a larger cycle which awaits our return. It is all just like breathing. Remove the fear and judgement to recognize the same pattern as a principle everywhere.

~ Franklin Gillette

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

We are so rebellious that when we die our cells refuse to live a second longer. But our souls they live always....

~ Shawna Mae Lewis

You can't say it wasn't interesting.

~ Roger Ebert

Sometimes I Wonder Where Those Spirits Go After Departing From The Bodies, Then I Realize, They Are All Around Us, In The Nature, Full of Spirits In Different Forms....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

... and we held our breath, just for a moment, to see if the world had ended, but it hadn't, so we yawned and drank our champagne and carried on living, except for those of us who died, and everything continued such as before.

~ Neil Gaiman

If I Could Read The Last Page of My Life....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this period is reckoned a portion of life. - Pg. 82

~ Robert Harris

I’m looking for the exit.”“The Last Exit to Brooklyn, will it be?”“Er, no! Just the way out.”From One man in his time

~ Anthony J. Saunders

Death is never an ending, death is a change;Death is beautiful, for death is strange;Death is one dream out of another flowing.

~ Conrad Aiken

Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being -- not a constant state -- that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

To live the life the gods have given you, you must clutch wisely, then run. Run like the houds of hell on a sinner's scent!

~ Scott Lynch

The sadness of death lies in the fact that it cannot be reversed. Cherish the world of the living whilst you have it, for you cannot visit there again.

~ Sulari Gentill

And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

Days become weeks. Weeks become months. Month become years. And years become silence.

~ Christy Hall

It's a messy business--being alive. But I'd rather have this short time with those I love than have an easy time. We forget about the things we saw that morning,and we choose to build a bigger sandcastle.

~ Emm Cole

He could almost taste the tang of that swampy air right here in his own desert parking lot and hear the calls of the heavily beating flock, sorrowing and apologizing and making plans for some other time. Time. He realized that crows had always reminded him of time, dark time. He gazed at the backs of his hands, at the plummy dark repellent veins.

~ Joy Williams

Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn’t.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

he made the poor choice of deciding that he couldn't live either. You can make a better choice. You can choose to get up and live.

~ Jesse Haubert

After misery follow, or are at least promised to in the unwritten manuscripts of Gods, great things. Sometimes, that great thing can be death.

~ Nina -

Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.

~ Rick Riordan

I'll be around my whole life. That's a long time to me.

~ Jodi Meadows

For where else can I go to sample daily the richness of life in all its profound chaos?

~ Theresa Brown

Hope as evidence of life. Life as evidence of death.

~ Lara Biyuts

I was a puzzle. An enigma. I was nothing. And then I was again.

~ Daniel Xiao Wang

The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The bell tolling not for us, it’s time for bluebells.

~ Lara Biyuts

So many people die with their dreams in their hands.

~ Alex Rogers

They continued on to London, and she's there, safe and sound, waiting for you.''You can't know for sure.' Piers swung up into the carriage.'You will never know for sure if she's dead or alive unless you keep her near you all the time,' Sebastian said with perfect, if maddening, accuracy.

~ Eloisa James

life hurts a lot more than death

~ Nandini