Life Quotes

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

~ Tecumseh

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.

~ John Andre

We will persevere, come life or death.

~ Lewis Tappan

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

~ Bodhidharma

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

~ Ieyasu Tokugawa

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

~ Bao Dai

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

~ Lynn Redgrave

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

~ Angela Carter

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

~ Hermann Hesse

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

~ Seneca

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

~ Rush Limbaugh

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

~ Orlando Bloom

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.

~ Alain Robert

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

~ Dan Savage

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

~ Alastair Campbell

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

~ Billy Corgan

I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

~ Sebastian Junger

Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.

~ Cesar Millan

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

~ John Ortberg

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

~ Raymond Carver

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

~ Bill Hicks

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

~ Celia Imrie

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

~ José Saramago

WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.

~ Anita Shreve

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

~ Yuvraj Singh

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

~ Elizabeth Mccracken

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.

~ Bel Powley

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

~ Bernhard Langer

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

~ Edvard Munch

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

~ John Ortberg

Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it.

~ Leonard Susskind

The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.

~ Angelo Scola

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

~ Carl Sagan

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

~ Steven Seagal

Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

~ Kirk Cameron

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

~ Regina Brett

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

~ Horatio Nelson

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

~ Damien Hirst