Life Quotes

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

~ Thomas Browne

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

~ Karen Decrow

The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.

~ Charles M. Blow

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

~ Berenice Abbott

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

~ Ernestine Rose

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

~ Ronnie James Dio

Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.

~ Joan Jett

For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.

~ Philippe Petit

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant.

~ Cesare Beccaria

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

~ Lucan

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

~ Havelock Ellis

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

~ Thomas Browne

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

~ Jean Giraudoux

A useless life is an early death.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

~ Graham Greene

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

~ David Blaine

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

~ Kim Elizabeth

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

~ José Martí

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

~ Mary Harris Jones

Death is a very important part of life.

~ Gg Allin

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

~ Seth Lloyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

~ Thomas Kyd

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

~ Rose Schneiderman

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

~ Pierre Corneille

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

~ Peter Mullan

I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.

~ Carl Paladino

My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.

~ Maria Shriver

I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments.

~ Serj Tankian

We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

~ Dasha Zhukova

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

~ Harmony Korine

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.

~ Edward Hirsch

In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.

~ Michael Ashcroft

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.

~ Michael Greger