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Category: Life and Death

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1. "Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on what he is made of."

Josh Billings

2. "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

3. "All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."

Samuel Butler, "The Way of All Flesh"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

4. "Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans."

John Lennon

5. "Life is a business that does not cover the costs."

Arthur Schopenhauer

6. "What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day."

George Bernard Shaw, "Pygmalion"

7. "Death takes no bribes."

Benjamin Franklin

8. "Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself."

George Bernard Shaw

9. "Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all - the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved."

Mark Twain, "Mark Twain's Notebook"

10. "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

11. "There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."

Jean de La Bruyere

12. "Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Love

13. "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

14. "We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all."

Jean de La Bruyere

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

15. "Life is to entered upon with courage."

Alexis de Tocqueville

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

16. "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

17. "Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."

Joseph Stalin

Quotations about: Question and Problem

18. "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows."

Socrates

19. "How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life."

Martin Buber

Quotations about: God and Religion

20. "That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life."

Rabindranath Tagore

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21. "Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs."

Rabindranath Tagore

22. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Education

23. "We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others."

Ronald Reagan

24. "He who would teach men to die would teach them to live."

Michel de Montaigne

25. "The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

26. "Life is short and truth works far and long: let us speak the truth."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

27. "Love's overbrimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Love

28. "Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Book of Burlesques"

29. "Life is far too important to be taken seriously."

Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan"

30. "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic."

Joseph Stalin

31. "If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a God."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

32. "History shows that life is the cheapest commodity."

Anon.

33. "If you haven't found something to live for you better find something to die for."

Martin Luther King

34. "Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."

Margaret Fuller

35. "The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play."

Rabindranath Tagore

36. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."

Albert Einstein

37. "Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby"

38. "Living is not breathing but doing."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

39. "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Everlasting Man"

Quotations about: Various

40. "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

Helen Keller

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

41. "Life is just one damned thing after another."

Elbert Green Hubbard

42. "Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

Samuel Butler, "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler"

43. "It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."

Michel de Montaigne

44. "There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."

Ernest Hemingway, "Death in the Afternoon"

Quotations about: Marriage

45. "Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."

Rabindranath Tagore

46. "Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Lev Tolstoy, "War and Peace"

Quotations about: Love

47. "I'm going to live forever. Or die trying."

Anon.

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