Life Quotes

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

~ Jim Morrison

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

~ Martin Heidegger

Nothing in life is promised except death.

~ Kanye West

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

~ Morgan Freeman

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

~ Confucius

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

~ Buddha

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

~ Plato

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

The death of the forest is the end of our life.

~ Dorothy Stang

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

~ Ruth Ann Minner

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

~ James Dean

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

~ Emily Dickinson

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

~ David Gerrold

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

~ Bill Shankly

The goal of all life is death.

~ Sigmund Freud

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

~ Paul Kurtz

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

~ Woody Allen

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

~ Norman Cousins

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.

~ James Dean

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

~ Patrick Swayze

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.

~ Jimi Hendrix

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

~ Mary Shelley

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

~ Moses

As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us.

~ Kevin Deyoung

When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.

~ Leos Carax

When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn.

~ Mickalene Thomas

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

~ Michelangelo

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

~ Damien Hirst

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

~ Stella Young

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

~ Tim Kaine

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.

~ Jeff Buckley

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

~ Michael Sheen