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Category: Life and Death

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1. "Life is an echo. What you send out - you get back. What you give - you get."

Anon.

2. "Life is eternal, and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."

Anon.

Quotations about: Love

3. "Death cancels all engagments."

Sir Max Beerbohm

4. "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."

Logan Pearsall Smith, "Afterthoughts"

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

5. "To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."

Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"

Quotations about: Love

6. "In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

7. "Life is one long process of getting tired."

Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"

8. "Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."

George Santayana, "Life of Reason"

Quotations about: Happiness

9. "Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

Vladimir Nabokov, "Pale Fire"

10. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

Woody Allen

11. "We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self."

Cyril Connolly, "Unquiet Grave"

Quotations about: Human

12. "It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Woody Allen

13. "Death pay all debts."

William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"

14. "You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."

Evan Esar

15. "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

16. "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."

Socrates

Quotations about: Good and Evil

17. "The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long."

Bertrand Russell

18. "Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"

Quotations about: Love

19. "Life is God's novel. Let him write it."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Quotations about: God and Religion

20. "The vintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust and that life is love, laughter, and work."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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21. "There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Various

22. "Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily. "

François de La Rochefoucauld

23. "Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection."

Arthur Schopenhauer, "Studies in Pessimism"

24. "Life is worth much more than gold."

Bob Marley

Quotations about: Richness and Money

25. "Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."

Samuel Butler

26. "Life, moral or physical, is not a completed fact, but a continual process, depending for its movement upon two contrary forces, the force of resistance and that of expression."

Rabindranath Tagore

27. "The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."

Clarence Darrow

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

28. "You live and learn. Or you don't live long."

Robert A. Heinlein

Quotations about: Education

29. "The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Love

30. "My life is my message."

Mahatma Gandhi

31. "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

Bertrand Russell, "Marriage and Morals"

Quotations about: Love -:- Bravery and Fear

32. "There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it?"

Robert A. Heinlein

33. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

George Bernard Shaw, "The Doctor's Dilemma"

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness -:- Wit and Humor

34. "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

Josh Billings

35. "The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it."

Guy de Maupassant

Quotations about: Various

36. "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

Mark Twain, (or gen. Ulysses S. Grant)

37. "Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard."

Benjamin Disraeli

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

38. "We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery."

Herbert George Wells

39. "Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Lying"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

40. "The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much."

William Hazlitt

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

41. "Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

Socrates

42. "Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it."

Rabindranath Tagore

43. "Life was not a valuable gift, but death was. Life was a fever-dream made up of joys embittered by sorrows, pleasure poisoned by pain, a dream that was a nightmare-confusion of spasmodic and fleeting delights, ecstasies, exultations, happinesses, interspersed with long-drawn miseries, griefs, perils, horrors, disappointments, defeats, humiliations, and despairs - the heaviest curse devisable by divine ingenuity; but death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free."

Mark Twain, "Letters From the Earth"

44. "Taking shelter in the dead is death itself, and only taking all the risk of life to the fullest extent is living."

Rabindranath Tagore

45. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Albert Einstein

46. "In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that immortality is in repeatedly transcending the definite forms of life in order to pursue the infinite truth of life."

Rabindranath Tagore

47. "To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead."

Samuel Butler

Quotations about: Memory

48. "A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

49. "The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

50. "The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

Gustave Flaubert

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