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Category: Life and Death

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1. "Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."

Reinhold Niebuhr, "Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic"

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Intellect, Judgement

2. "When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."

John Donne, "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions"

3. "This mortal air is one wide pestilence, that kills us all at last."

Herman Melville, "Mardi"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

4. "Life is the desert, life the solitude,
Death joins us to the great majority."

Edward Young, "The Revenge"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

5. "A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man."

Percival Arland Ussher, "An Alphabet of Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Human

6. "Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

Virginia Woolf, "The Common Reader, First Series"

7. "We die, because we live."

Herman Melville, "Mardi"

8. "The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."

Flip Wilson

Quotations about: Various

9. "The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?"

William Morris, "News From Nowhere"

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

10. "Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!"

Matt Frewer

11. "Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Quotations about: Human

12. "Life is an effort that deserves a better cause."

Karl Kraus, "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

13. "When you jumped in here, you were my enemy and I was afraid of you. But you're just a man like me, and I killed you. Forgive me, comrade."

Maxwell Anderson, "All Quiet On The Western Front"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

14. "Life is not a dress rehearsal."

Rose Tremain

15. "Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be - a cake, which I have eaten and had too."

Margaret Anderson, "The Fiery Fountains"

16. "The secret of a long life is knowing when it's time to go."

Michele Shocked

Quotations about: Youth and Age

17. "The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday."

Georg Büchner, "The Hessian Messenger"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

18. "Death is the most blessed dream."

Georg Büchner, "Leonce and Lena"

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

19. "In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on."

Herman Melville, "Mardi"

20. "Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end. "

Multatuli (Eduard Douwer Dekker), "The Oyster and the Eagle"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

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21. "The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever."

Georg Büchner, "Leonce and Lena"

22. "Life is a long lesson in humility."

James M. Barrie

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

23. "Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within sleep."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, Second Series"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

24. "Most suicides are committed with a knife and fork."

Swedish proverb

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

25. "The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Success and Fame

26. "Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises."

Günther Grass

Quotations about: Art and Culture

27. "Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life."

Paul Tillich, "Christianity and the Encounter of the World Reli"

Quotations about: God and Religion

28. "Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful."

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

29. "Death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked."

St. Ambrose, "De bono mortis"

Quotations about: Justice

30. "We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."

Graham Greene, "The Heart of the Matter"

31. "Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

32. "Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity."

John Lennon

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

33. "Life begins at forty."

Walter B. Pitkin, "Life begins at forty"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

34. "The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

Thomas Gray, "Poetical Works"

Quotations about: Success and Fame

35. "Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."

Matthew Arnold, "Sohrab and Rustum"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

36. "Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness."

Rémy De Gourmont, "Selected Writings"

37. "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."

William James, "The Varieties of Religious Experience"

38. "We die of too much life."

Herman Melville, "Mardi"

39. "The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."

Cesare Pavese, "The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950"

Quotations about: Memory

40. "We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers' wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death."

John Donne, "Eighty Sermons"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

41. "Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage."

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

42. "We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "In Search of Goethe from Within"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

43. "Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirious of living more do we really live."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Dehumanization of Art"

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

44. "There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him."

David Herbert Lawrence, "The Plumed Serpent"

45. "Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."

Stefan Zweig, "The World of Yesterday"

46. "The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

47. "Wherever art appears, life disappears."

Francis Picabia

Quotations about: Art and Culture

48. "[...] parables are unnecessary for recognizing the blatant absurdity of everyday life. Reality is lesson enough."

Jane O`Reilly, "The Girl I Left Behind"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

49. "Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."

Jean Anouilh, "Becket"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

50. "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

Horace Walpole

Quotations about: Various

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