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Quotes About Life

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The goal of all life is death.
~ Sigmund Freud
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
~ Bret Harte
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eternal life
~ Book of Common Prayer
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
~ John Donne
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
~ Dean Koontz
Birth is the beginning of death
~ Thomas Fuller
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
~ Aristotle
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
~ Michel de Montaigne
He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive ...
~ William Saroyan
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
~ Jim Morrison
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I'm gonna live till I die.
~ Frank Sinatra
He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
~ William Penn
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
~ Corazon Aquino
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying
~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.
~ Groucho Marx
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
~ Unknown
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
~ Heraclitus
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
~ Robert Cody
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
~ Woody Allen
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day
~ George Eliot