Quotes About Life

Earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.

We begin to die as soon as we are born and the end is linked to the beginning.

For my family to go on living the way they are living now I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally.

The other night while lying on a couch I reviewed the high point of my life and fell asleep!

Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination try to visualize a world without death.

Everybody's gotta die sometime. That's life.

I want to die like my grandfather died . . . peacefully in his sleep. Not like the other three people screaming in the car.

I don't want to put my life in the hands of any doctor who believes in reincarnation. Give me a good old-fashioned American doc who'll make sure you live to pay that bill.

The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

No matter how rich you become how famous or powerful when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.

If your time hasn't come not even a doctor can kill you.

The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.

Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.

Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.

Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective.

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.