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Quotes About Life

Death is not an means to an end but the beginning of life with God
~ Unknown
...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.
~ Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
RIP, to those that are no longer here in Body, for they give our minds a lesson in eternity...
~ Unknown
There was no way I could be confident! But it was obvious that the patient will die if I don't do something!"-Dr. Honma
~ Osamu Tezuka
I was born tomorrowtoday I liveyesterday killed me
~ Unknown
You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.
~ Unknown
Death twitches my ear. "Live " he says "I am coming".
~ Unknown
To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.
~ Euripides
Death is just a distant rumour to the young.
~ Unknown
If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this.
~ Robert Burns
At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.
~ Unknown
Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live.
~ Dorothy Parker
Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.
~ George Santayana
After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
You have to learn to do everything even to die.
~ Gertrude Stein
Oh death you can wait keep your distance.
~ André Chénier
You don't die in the United States you underachieve.
~ Jerzy Kosinski
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.
~ Anonymous
If this is dying I don't think much of it.
~ Lytton Strachey
Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.
~ Jewish proverb
It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'
~ Dorothy Parker
Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.
~ Archibald MacLeish
There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.
~ Charles Mackay