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Category: Life and Death

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1. "Life is like a tree. Every branch ends the same, with its limbs outstretched, and its leaves opened up, trying to touch the light it will never reach."

Michael D. Perry

2. "Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules."

Ashleigh Brilliant

3. "What is life without the radiance of love?"

Friedrich von Schiller, "Wallenstein"

Quotations about: Love

4. "Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again."

Karl Popper

Quotations about: Science and Technology

5. "Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

Plato, "Laws"

6. "Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."

Theodore Roosevelt

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

7. "Life is to be fortified by many friendships."

Sydney Smith

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

8. "Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."

Quentin Crisp, "The Naked Civil Servant"

9. "Life is a suicide mission."

Orson Scott Card, "Children of the Mind"

10. "Death is life's way of telling you you're fired."

Anon.

11. "Love is energy of life."

Robert Browning

Quotations about: Love

12. "It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."

Aristotle

13. "The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."

Ayn Rand

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness -:- Manners and Ethics

14. "Live with your century; but do not be its creature."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Various

15. "Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."

Irving Berlin

16. "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

Christopher Morley

Quotations about: Success and Fame

17. "The meaning of life is to go back to sleep and hope that tomorrow will be a better day."

Charles Monroe Schulz

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

18. "When we can't dream any longer we die."

Emma Goldman

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

19. "Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope."

William Hazlitt

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

20. "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive."

Elbert Green Hubbard

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21. "The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb."

English proverb

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

22. "War is death's feast."

George Herbert

Quotations about: Peace and War

23. "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

Stephen Hawking

Quotations about: Science and Technology

24. "Love makes us poets and the approach of death makes us philosophers."

George Santayana

Quotations about: Love

25. "Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Quotations about: Time and Passing

26. "If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"

Stephen Levine

Quotations about: Love

27. "God give me work, till my life shall end.
And life, till my work is done."

Winifred Holtby`s epitaph

Quotations about: Inscriptions etc. -:- Work and Laziness

28. "Death is not a period but a comma in the story of life."

Amos Traver

29. "Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand."

T. E. Lawrence, "The Mint"

30. "Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

William Sydney Porter (O. Henry), "Four Million"

31. "Turn up the lights; I don't want to go home in the dark."

William Sydney Porter (O. Henry), last words before death

32. "Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round."

David Lodge

Quotations about: Art and Culture

33. "Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties."

Sir James Jeans, "Mysterious Universe"

34. "Life is perhaps most wisely regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings, and every day is a life in miniature."

Eugene O`Neill, "Marco Millions"

35. "Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."

Eugene O`Neill, "Lazarus Laughed"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

36. "Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."

Fran Lebowitz

37. "A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

Carl Sandburg

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

38. "Life is not fair, but life is not fair for everyone. That makes life fair."

Anon.

Quotations about: Justice

39. "Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you respond to it."

Louis Leo Holtz

40. "We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance."

Paul Boese

41. "Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."

Horace Walpole

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

42. "It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life."

Irish proverb

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

43. "Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."

William James

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

44. "There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval."

George Santayana

45. "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."

A. A. Milne

Quotations about: Love

46. "Every man dies; not every man really lives."

Anon., from the film "Braveheart"

47. "The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

48. "What we do in life, echoes in eternity."

from the "Gladiator" movie

Quotations about: Time and Passing

49. "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

James Dean

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

50. "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

Anon.

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