Life-and-death Quotes

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

Every war is the war for whoever's lived through it.

But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered t...

And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.

And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, ...

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

There were ten tongues within one head, and one went out to fetch some bread, to feed the living and...

... and we held our breath, just for a moment, to see if the world had ended, but it hadn't, so we y...

I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somew...

In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether...

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time tha...

When I was young” … “Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept ga...

Yes! all is past—swift time has fled away,Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind;How long will ho...

That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn...

No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn ear...

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ...

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs ar...

Mr. Edwards and the Spider"I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree tha...

I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotte...

You can't say it wasn't interesting.

Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens.

Death and life were just adjacent verandas.

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or hear...

To live the life the gods have given you, you must clutch wisely, then run. Run like the houds of he...

I was created to be destroyed.

It is a great wonderHow Almighty God in his magnificenceFavors our race with rank and scopeAnd the g...

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of ...

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by...

You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk ...

Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it d...

You know I don't understand what you mean, right?" I asked. "I'm counting on it," she said, and then...

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be becau...

Everyone died in solitude, after all. A simple enough truth. A truth no one need fear. The spirits w...

Personally I don’t endorse the notion of mortality. It’s fine for other folk, but I disapprove of th...

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of...

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a...

The neck in front of her came up. The head swivelled 180 degrees and the horse looked at Kin with br...

I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and...

In order to tame death, they refuse to completely enjoy life. In rejecting complete enjoyment, they ...

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a fri...

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with d...

Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of ...

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, ...

My fugitive years are all hasting away,And I must ere long lie as lowly as they,With a turf on my br...

Thick is the darkness-- Sunward, O, sunward!Rough is the highway-- Onward, still onward!Dawn harbors...

I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know...

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beauti...

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beauti...

There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.

So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the tra...

Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.

The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged ...

It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where ...

Lie you easy, dream you light,And sleep you fast for aye;And luckier may you find the nightThan ever...

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying ‘This, too, shall pass.’ For a tim...

For the crown of our life as it closesIs darkness, the fruit there of dust;No thorns go as deep as t...

The potential biographies of those who die young possess the mystic dignity of a headless statue, th...

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die o...

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: ...

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...

I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowled...

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.

peace of mind and heartarriveswhen we accept what is:having beenborn into thisstrange lifewe must ac...

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by...

Up the coast a few miles north, in a lava reef under the cliffs, there are a lot of rock pools. You ...

We live and we die and anything else is just delusion. it's just passive chick bullshit about feelin...

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

Death is never an ending, death is a change;Death is beautiful, for death is strange;Death is one dr...

in that cold autistic dark.

In the grueling light that passed for day...

There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote ...

Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation.Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of ...

Joe knew what the nod meant-this was why they became outlaws. To live moments the insurance salesman...

And as much as I wanted to, I knew I couldn't turn around, that to look at her directly was to viola...

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space b...

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald, I became very ill; some sort of poisoning. I was tran...

UselessnessLet mine not be the saddest fate of all, To live beyond my greater self; to see My facu...

And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a st...

Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying ...

Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed ...

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and mo...

Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs...

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t ev...

...and we go on living and breathing it into our lungs like fine dust.Until that time, I had underst...

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I wi...

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us t...

Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue...

Either a man goes and hangs himself, and then he hangs sure enough, and he'll have his reasons for i...

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Too weird to live, too rare to die!

We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out.