Life Quotes

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

~ George Orwell

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

~ Anne Rice

Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34)

~ Stephen Levine

Just know I amNot there to catch youBut I am there for you

~ Caleb Warta

die daily.hourly, if you'vegot the energy.

~ Sherwin Tjia

Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.

~ Megan Boyle

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.

~ Annie Dillard

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard.

~ Sebastian Barry

My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and all men would be equally brave.

~ Stonewall Jackson

In every person, there is a doer and a devil. With every passing days, the doer dies and a devil has to rise.

~ Santosh Kalwar

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

~ Rosie Thomas

If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?

~ Sena Jeter Naslund

It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, changing and yet changeless, thing it was. And yet mystery and loveliness alike were really only appreciable with one's legs, as it were, dangling down over into the grave.

~ Walter De La Mare

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.

~ Leonid Andreyev

Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been fulfilled. I saw that what transpires in the mind is just as real as any flesh and blood occurrence. What had only been imagination in life, now became tangible, each fantasy a full reality. I lived them all—while, at the same time, standing to the side, a witness to their, often, intimate squalor. A witness cursed with total objectivity.

~ Richard Matheson

If I should go before the rest of youBreak not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.

~ Joyce Grenfell

I didn't cry when they buried my father - I wouldn't let myself. I didn't cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second-round match.

~ Greg Garber

I could picture how Caprice was before we lost her. Dark hair, beautiful smile, intelligent hazel eyes, quick wit.Now gone.Just gone.Like a chessboard where suddenly one of the knights disappeared. A blank spot on the board of life that could never truly be replaced because no two things were alike, no two beings alike.

~ Cheyenne Mccray

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing in life was as ugly as death.

~ Graham Greene

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

~ Osamu Dazai

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

~ Idries Shah

YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.That's what being alive is all about.

~ Terry Pratchett

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.

~ Italian Proverb

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived.

~ Sage Steadman

Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.

~ Nenia Campbell

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.

~ H. Rider Haggard

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

~ Dean Koontz

…the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead, that only occasionally, in certain lights and atmospheric conditions, do we appear in their field of vision.

~ W.g. Sebald

There was something about other people's grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn't be looking.

~ Jane Fallon

If you truly live, you will never truly die!

~ Melanie M. Grace

Who said, 'All Time's delightHath she for narrow bed;Life's troubled bubble broken'? ---That's what I said.

~ Walter De La Mare

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.

~ Dee Remy

The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don't die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

~ Mike Norton

Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

~ Paulo Coelho

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

~ Leo Tolstoy

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.

~ Paulo Coelho

This was their way of honoring the dead. The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert themselves in their hearts, in their nerves, their blood and appetites. Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept. Odysseus brings not one man to shore with him. Yet he sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope.

~ Richard Adams

Life is the death of all of us.' - Tristan

~ Rowan Speedwell