Life Quotes

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

~ Edvard Munch

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

~ Bob Dylan

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.

~ Vincent Nichols

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

~ Brian Blessed

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

~ Victor Hugo

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

~ Tite Kubo

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

~ George Bernard Shaw

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

~ Ed Sheeran

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

~ Voltaire

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

~ Hilaire Belloc

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

~ Sting

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

~ Ben Kingsley

Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.

~ Alysia Reiner

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

~ Jean Cocteau

Death is just life's next big adventure.

~ J.k. Rowling

My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

~ Susan Hayward

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.

~ Barry Jenkins

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

~ Mel Brooks

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

~ Sam Harris

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

~ Carol P. Christ

I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.

~ Toni Servillo

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

~ Elie Wiesel

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

~ Virginia Woolf

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

~ Jacqueline Cochran

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

~ George Whitefield

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

~ André Breton

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.

~ Max Lucado

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

~ David Lynch

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

~ Jan Hus

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

~ Rosalind Russell

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

~ Edna Ferber

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

~ Carl Jung

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

~ Saul Alinsky

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

~ Angelina Jolie

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

~ Simone De Beauvoir