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Quotes About Life

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.
~ William Shakespeare
Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.
~ William Shakespeare
This thought is as a death.
~ William Shakespeare
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.
~ William Shakespeare
When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover.
~ William Shakespeare
So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.
~ William Shakespeare
Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.
~ William Shakespeare
When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.
~ William Shakespeare
I think you die the way you live.
~ William Shatner
A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart, " I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
The only sin is the sin of being born
~ Samuel Beckett
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
~ Socrates
I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they're cramming for their final exam.
~ George Carlin
Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
~ Langston Hughes
The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.
~ Horace, The Odes of Horace
A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.
~ Mother Teresa
It's the people who aren't scared who die young.
~ Unknown
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, And look on death itself!
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth
In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables