Quotes About Life

Death is for other people.

The real excitement of being a girl - of being, that is, a woman in embryo - was that life was such a wonderful gamble. You didn't know what was going to happen to you. That was what made being a woman so exciting. No worry about what you should be or do - Biology would decide. You were waiting for The Man, and when the man came, he would change your entire life, you can say what you like, that is an exciting point of view to hold at the threshold of life.

And they had no idea that they and many others were automatically pronounced deadly dull solely on that account. Only by the young of course, but then, they would have thought indulgently, young people knew nothing about life. Poor dears, they were always worrying about examinations, or their sex life, or buying some extraordinary clothes, or doing some extraordinary things to their hair to make them more noticeable.

Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.

El dinero es ridículo! ¡El crédito es ridículo! ¡Convenga usted en que la vida tiene mucho de ridículo!

One doesn't want to die young. Sometimes one has to.

Life is a difficult business... It needs infinite courage and a lot of endurance. And in the end one wonders: 'Was it worth while?' - Mrs. Lorrimer, Cards on the Table

Love is not everything, Mademoiselle," Poirot said gently. "It is only when we are young that we think it is.

Every woman should make one mistake matrimonially. - Alex Restarick

How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the country's feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be.

You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.' 'Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?' 'It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance.

I know—I know. To all of us, Mademoiselle, there comes a time when death is preferable to life. But it passes—sorrow passes and grief. You cannot believe that now, I know.

So many things are difficult," said Miss Marple. It was a useful phrase which she used often.

There is a great deal of wickedness in village life. I hope you dear young people will never realize how very wicked the world is.

Everyone must die! That is so, is it not? If it comes quickly from the sky—bouff—like that, it is as well as any other way. One is alive for a time—yes, and then one is dead. That is what happens in this world.

I suppose that one can, if one has the determination, always get something out of life.

Wherever there is human nature, there is drama. But — it is not always just where you think it is. Remember that.

That is the word of reality - need.

Once you've passed, say, fifty, comfort is the only thing that matters.

But man was a ridiculous animal anyway....

Everyone's life has a tempo. Ruth's was presto whereas Miss Marple's was content to be adagio.

She didn't want to die. She couldn't imagine wanting to die…Death was for—for other people.

Such people forget that life and death are the affair of the good God.

The Kiddles had come and conquered. Life was stronger than death.