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Category: Life and Death

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1. "It is better to live rich, than to die rich."

Samuel Johnson

Quotations about: Richness and Money

2. "We prefer being free men than imprisoned heros."

Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

3. "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Richness and Money

4. "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

Franklin P. Jones

Quotations about: Love

5. "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right."

Steve Jobs

6. "Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."

Francis Bacon

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

7. "Sometimes it keeps us alive hope, sometimes habit, and sometimes fear. In the first case this is life, in the other vegetation, in the third hell."

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Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Optimism and Hope

8. "Hope is our life anesthesia."

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Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

9. "Death is the station, where we have to change to the next train. The appearance of the vehicle is changed, but our journey continues."

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10. "Life gives you a kick and then with a smile, asks: Is there too much it hurt?"

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Quotations about: Pain and Tears

11. "Life is an equation with an infinite number of unknowns."

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12. "Life is a jar, where the honey is just a thin layer on top."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

13. "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain."

Anon.

14. "Life without errors is like paper without words."

Anon.

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

15. "Here`s to your coffins: May they be made of hundred-year-old oaks, which we shall plant tomorrow."

(a toast)

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Wit and Humor

16. "Even optimists have a 100% mortality rate."

Anon.

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

17. "I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Various

18. "We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Passages from the American Notebooks"

19. "Religion, opium for the people. To those suffering pain, humiliation, illness, and serfdom, it promised a reward in an afterlife. And now we are witnessing a transformation. A true opium for the people is a belief in nothingness after death--the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged."

Czeslaw Milosz, "Roadside Dog"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

20. "Life is the risk we cannot refuse."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

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21. "Life is lived forwards and understood backwards."

Anon.

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

22. "Life's not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, loudly proclaiming -WOW- What a ride!"

Anon.

23. "Fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying."

Anon.

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

24. "God's pay is not great, but his retirement plan is out of this world."

Anon.

Quotations about: God and Religion

25. "... the great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind."

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Human

26. "In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world."

Federico García Lorca

27. "Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

28. "Food first, then morality."

Bertolt Brecht, "The Threepenny Opera"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

29. "Life is a balancing of differences."

Anon.

30. "Without music, life is a journey through a desert."

Anon.

Quotations about: Art and Culture

31. "If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Human -:- Nature and Animals

32. "Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give."

Katharine Fullerton Gerould, "Modes and Morals"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

33. "I don't want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally."

Zelda Fitzgerald, letter to her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quotations about: Love

34. "The moment you come into this world you begin to go out of it; your first breath is linked with your last."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, "Romans: The Final Perseverance Of The Saints"

35. "I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward."

John Mortimer

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

36. "Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Quotations about: Time and Passing

37. "The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."

Anita Brookner

Quotations about: Justice -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

38. "Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live."

Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

39. "Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."

Gustave Flaubert, "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Quotations about: Education

40. "Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

41. "The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

42. "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you."

Maya Angelou

Quotations about: Various

43. "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

Isaac Asimov

44. "Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life."

Vaclav Havel, "Disturbing the Peace"

45. "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pike

Quotations about: Egoism -:- Memory

46. "Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now."

Dwight L. Moody

47. "The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy."

Jean de La Bruyere, "Les Caracteres"

Quotations about: Happiness

48. "Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life."

Albert Schweitzer

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics -:- Good and Evil

49. "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, (speech at Greenville, N.C., Feb 8, 1963)

Quotations about: History and Nations -:- Various

50. "One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Quotations about: Human

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