Life and Death

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

Truman Capote

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it."

Salma Hayek

Life and Death

Wit and Humor

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions."

Ellen Glasgow

Life and Death

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is something that everyone should try at least once."

Henry J. Tillman

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A brave man dies but once, a coward many times."

Native American Proverbs

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."

Peter Ustinov

Life and Death

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."

Boris Pasternak "Doctor Zhivago"

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."

Doug Larson

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."

Frank Lloyd Wright

Life and Death

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Ferris Bueller

Life and Death

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Samuel Johnson

Life and Death

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We prefer being free men than imprisoned heros."

Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

Freedom and Servitude

Life and Death

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Winston Churchill

Life and Death

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Franklin P. Jones

Life and Death

Love

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Steve Jobs

Life and Death

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Francis Bacon

Life and Death

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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."

Kazimierz Matan

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Hope is our life anesthesia."

Kazimierz Matan

Life and Death

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Kazimierz Matan

Life and Death

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Kazimierz Matan

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Kazimierz Matan

Life and Death

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Kazimierz Matan

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

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Life and Death

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Life without errors is like paper without words."

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Defeates and Mistakes

Life and Death

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

(a toast)

Health and Alcohol

Life and Death

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Even optimists have a 100% mortality rate."

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Life and Death

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Mark Twain

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Life and Death

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Life and Death

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is the risk we cannot refuse."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Life and Death

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is lived forwards and understood backwards."

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Intellect, Judgement

Life and Death

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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!"

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Life and Death

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

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Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

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God and Religion

Life and Death

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

"... 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

Authority, Government

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 7.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Federico García Lorca

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life and Death

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Food first, then morality."

Bertolt Brecht "The Threepenny Opera"

Life and Death

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is a balancing of differences."

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Life and Death

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

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Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Human

Life and Death

Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Law and Crime

Life and Death

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Zelda Fitzgerald letter to her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life and Death

Love

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

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

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Health and Alcohol

Life and Death

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Anita Brookner

Justice

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)