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Quotes About Life

Embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it.
~ Darren Shan, Bec
The truth in death can only be found in the dying itself.
~ Unknown
Dead's not good, but at least it's simple.
~ James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
An upturned life is righted in the box.
~ Unknown
Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
At the last moment she thought, I'm not ready.But she already knew the answer to that.Nobody was ever ready.
~ L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.
~ Jo Walton, Among Others
One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I'm going to die.
~ Agnostic Zetetic
They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.
~ Paul Zindel, The Pigman
In life we are separated by boundaries political, cultural, ethical, linguistical and psychical. But in death we are all united, for all afterlife is similarly unknown
~ Prabhukrishna M
Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage.
~ Palle Oswald
I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.
~ Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden
Dead man shouldn't have no fears. Makes his passing easier.
~ Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden
Death is only tragic if you have tragically wasted your life on meaninglessness.
~ Unknown
Do you want to stick needles in the living or scalpels in the dead?
~ Unknown
She who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.
~ Unknown
Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.
~ Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows
[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]
~ Richard Baxter
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
~ George Santayana
Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.
~ Unknown
I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.
~ Orhan Pamuk
As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.
~ Tom Stoppard
Life may be scaryBut it's only temporary.And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.from: Antinatalism A Thought Experiment
~ Quentin S. Crisp
Life may be scaryBut it's only temporary.And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.
~ Quentin S. Crisp