Life Quotes

An unused life is an early death.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

~ Angelina Jolie

In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.

~ Bernie Sanders

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

~ Mason Cooley

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

~ Lord Byron

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

~ Martha Beck

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

~ Ellen G. White

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

~ Emile M. Cioran

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

~ Joel Salatin

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

~ Gwyneth Paltrow

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

~ Hedy Lamarr

For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

~ Yayoi Kusama

No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.

~ Tony Judt

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

~ Dennis Miller

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

~ Bertolt Brecht

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

~ Rose Kennedy

I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.

~ Tony Diterlizzi

Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.

~ Roberto Benigni

You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.

~ Brandi Carlile

Johnny Ringo to me was just the best antagonist that I've ever played, because I played him as a guy who has a death wish and had done everything that he wanted in life. As far as he was concerned, a gun fight was about as exciting as it was going to get.

~ Michael Biehn

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

~ Boris Pasternak

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

~ William Law

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

~ Dean Smith

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

~ David Sarnoff

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

~ Laurence Fox

I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

~ V. E. Schwab

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

~ Hugh Sidey

It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'

~ Thomas Arnold

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

~ Hortense Odlum

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

~ John Hines

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

~ Jackie Robinson

Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

~ Kailash Satyarthi

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.

~ Charles A. Beard

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.

~ Clara Zetkin

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

~ Emma Goldman