Life Quotes

Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.

~ Neil Gaiman

For Death is the meaning of night;The eternal shadowInto which all lives must fall, All hopes expire.

~ Michael Cox

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

~ Stephen Levine

Death truly does have life, and walks with and lives through us everyday.

~ Nicholas A. Mcgirr

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

~ Tom Ford

I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.

~ Nick Cave

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?

~ Paulo Coelho

If you can overcome love, you can overcome fear. If you can overcome fear, you can overcome death.

~ Santosh Kalwar

He comes down next to me, and when I hold out my hand, he takes it. Our fingers lace together. And in that feeling, that perfect feeling of our hands and fingers pressed together, I want to tell him everything. I want to tell him about Josh, and his sister, Emily. I want to tell him about tall, crazy Gert. I want to tell him about bridges and funerals, and most of all, maps. More than anything else, I want to tell him about myself. I want to tell him that I know what things look like from above now. There's so much I want to tell him, because I know he'll understand.

~ Shawn Klomparens

It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life?And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.

~ Nora Roberts

Մահ ոչ իմացեալ՝ մահ է, մահ իմացեալ՝ անմահութիւն է:Death, unanticipated, is death; death, anticipated, is immortality.

~ Saint Vardapet Eghishē

One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me before the life was ended, the doctor drew the poison from my stomach with a syringe, and when I woke, it was to the sound of my own weeping. For I had hoped to open my eyes on Heaven, where my father was; and they had only pulled me back to Hell.

~ Sarah Waters

You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio

~ Gabriel García Márquez

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.

~ Haruki Murakami

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

~ Mira Grant

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

~ Walt Whitman

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

~ John Gunther

His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.

~ Ravi Zacharias

Everything but a life can be replaced.

~ Marty Rubin

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

~ David Levien

There is a child - a baby - who long since kicked off her blankets. Her skin is ashen and her mouth open in a perpetual yet silent scream. She isn't old enough to roll over, to sit up, to climb. So she lies there kicking her fat legs against the footboard of the crib, eternally calling for her mother. For food. For flesh.

~ Carrie Ryan

Life dies but forever will there be music. Always.

~ Nicholas A. Mcgirr

The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love, otherwise it will become a desert.

~ Sorin Cerin

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

~ Stephen Levine

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

~ Mark Doty

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

~ Jackie French

Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write symphonies..

~ Jon Krakauer

Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

~ Werner Von Braun

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.

~ Anthony T. Kronman

That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.

~ Loretta Ellsworth

It’s quite simple. Death isn’t what we think it is. It isn’t life which ends but time which stops.

~ Henri Rivière

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

~ Erik H. Erikson

এ ভুবনে ডুবল যে চাঁদ সে ভুবনে উঠল কি তা?হেথায় সাঁঝে ঝরল যে ফুল হোথায় প্রাতে ফুটল কি তা?এ জীবনের কান্না যত― হয় কি হাসি সে ভুবনে?হায়! জীবন এত ছোট কেনে?এ ভুবনে?

~ Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay

But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long-preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust; The grave’s a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

~ Andrew Marvell

Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion! But of the loved, revered, and honoured head, thou canst not turn one hair to thy dread purposes, or make one feature odious. It is not that the hand is heavy and will fall down when released; it is not that the heart and pulse are still; but that the hand was open, generous, and true; the heart brave, warm, and tender; and the pulse a man's. Strike, Shadow, strike! And see his good deeds springing from the wound, to sow the world with life immortal.

~ Charles Dickens

For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

~ John Ruskin

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

~ Teju Cole

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

~ Thornton Wilder