Life Quotes

What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.

~ Nalini Singh

Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?

~ Nalini Singh

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

~ Epicurus

I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.

~ Yohji Yamamoto

He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that when it comes to them there will be a lesson, a meaning, a story worth telling. That death will come to them as a dread scholar, a fell knight, a terrible emperor.Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

~ Joe Abercrombie

The foolish rush to end their lives.Only the steadfast soul survives.

~ Christine De Pizan

أحمق من يستسلم للموت طالما الحياة ممكنة

~ منذر بدر حلوم

When your demon was yourself, there really was no way to fight or get rid of it.

~ Holly Hood

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

~ Libba Bray

Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died.

~ Stevie Smith

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor’s mind toward some final resolution, some clear meaning, which it perhaps never finds.

~ Robert Woodruff Anderson

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. Unless, of course, you can literally believe all that stuff about family reunions 'on the further shore,' pictured in entirely earthly terms. But that is all unscriptural, all out of bad hymns and lithographs. There's not a word of it in the Bible. And it rings false. We know it couldn't be like that. Reality never repeats. The exact same thing is never taken away and given back. How well the Spiritualists bait their hook! 'Things on this side are not so different after all.' There are cigars in Heaven. For that is what we should all like. The happy past restored.

~ C.s. Lewis

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

~ Katharine Hepburn

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

~ Ana Monnar

I am dying now, but I still have many things to say.

~ Roberto Bolaño

Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones.

~ M. Jones

The thin line between life and death is still under construction.

~ Santosh Kalwar

The painful truth about life is not death but death while you are alive.

~ Santosh Kalwar

In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our stories end the same way, too, with all of us uttering some last words—or perhaps someone else’s—before slipping back into darkness as our series of unfortunate events comes to an end.

~ Lemony Snicket

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

~ Philip José Farmer

Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Love is bitter, death is sweet.

~ Jack Kerouac

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

~ Criss Jami

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.

~ Dee Remy

It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.

~ Terry Pratchett

I'm not courting death, I've far too many books left to read.

~ Alison Sinclair

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

~ Alice Hoffman

Death is a part of Life, they are dancing together the dance of infinity in front of the gates of Time. We can live our dreams as we are dreaming our future. Time is the Endless Consciousness

~ Grigoris Deoudis

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

~ George R.r. Martin

In fact living is dying.

~ Guy De Maupassant

We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.

~ David Gemmell

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock?

~ Cormac Mccarthy

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

~ Alexandre Dumas

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

~ John Logan

Now every mortal has painand sweat is constant,but if there is anything dearer than being alive,it's dark to me.We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing(whatever it is) that glitters on the earth--we call it life. We know no other.The underworld's a blankand all the rest just fantasy.

~ Anne Carson

Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away, leaving her there, never to look back. But my friend Tom, my ever-faithful good friend Tom said, pointing down the hall away from Cec's room, 'Life's that way. Let's go home.'And so we did.

~ Jim Beaver

La vida es mi tortura y la muerte será mi descanso.

~ William Shakespeare

The young open the paper to forget about life by reading the funny strips. The old do it to forget about death by reading other people's obits. My advice: don't open the paper and go on with your life.

~ Gabriel Bá

You smile upon your friend to-day,To-day his ills are over;You hearken to the lover's say,And happy is the lover.'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never:I shall have lived a little whileBefore I die for ever.

~ A.e. Housman

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

~ Joseph Campbell