Life Quotes

I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one.

~ Roman Payne

I wonder if it hurts to live,And if they have to try,And whether, could they choose between,They would not rather die.

~ Emily Dickinson

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

~ Stanley Kubrick

He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal.

~ Tom Robbins

Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.

~ Nancy Mckenzie

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

~ Henry James

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

~ Jeanette Winterson

I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter.

~ Gemma Malley

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

~ Samuel Johnson

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

~ Marcus Aurelius

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

~ Jess C. Scott

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveil A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

~ Emily Dickinson

There was once a tiger-striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, and lived a million lives, and in those lives, various people owned him. None of those people he cared for. This cat was not afraid of death. One life, the cat became a stray cat, which meant it was free. And it met a white female cat. They became mates, and lived together. Time passed, the white cat passed away of old age. And the tiger- striped cat cried a million times. Eventually, the cat died again. But this time, it didn't come back to life.

~ Keiko Nobumoto

He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

~ Graham Greene

I was tired of being me.

~ Rachel Ward

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

~ Tom Robbins

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

~ Graham Greene

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.

~ Alice Borchardt

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

~ Charles Dickens

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

~ Dean Koontz

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

~ Haruki Murakami

Tonight I saw myself in the dark window asthe image of my father, whose lifewas spent like this,thinking of death, to the exclusionof other sensual matters,so in the end that lifewas easy to give up, sinceit contained nothing: evenmy mother's voice couldn't make himchange or turn backas he believedthat once you can't love another human beingyou have no place in the world.

~ Louise Glück

Tell me not in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.

~ John Green

Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

~ Markus Zusak

Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

~ Suzanne Collins

Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required.You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were loved.

~ Gemma Malley

Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.

~ Richard Bach

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

~ Simon Van Booy

I know the truth, and I will tell you now: He was admired, loved, cheered, honored, respected. In life as well as in death. A great man, he is. A great man, he was. A great man he will be. He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave. And I knew, as Denny sped me toward the doctor who would fix me, that if I had already accomplished what I set out to accomplish here on earth, if I had already learned what I was meant to learn, I would have left the curb one second later than I had, and I would have been killed instantly by that car. But I was not killed. Because I was not finished. I still had work to do.

~ Garth Stein

My best day ever. Got up. Had breakfast. Came to school. Bored, as usual. Wishing I wasn't there, like usual. Kids ignoring me, suits me fine. Sitting with the other retards—we’re so special. Wasting my time. Yesterday was the same, and it's gone, anyway. Tomorrow may never come. There is only today. This is the best day and the worst day. Actually it's crap.

~ Rachel Ward

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.

~ Joss Whedon

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

~ Alex Scarrow

Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.

~ Gore Vidal

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

~ William Shakespeare

We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries.

~ Wendy Corsi Staub

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

~ Lawrence Clark Powell