Life and Death

"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."

Gustave Flaubert "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Education

Life and Death

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Life and Death

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

Albert Einstein

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you."

Maya Angelou

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

Isaac Asimov

Life and Death

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life."

Vaclav Havel "Disturbing the Peace"

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pike

Egoism

Life and Death

Memory

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now."

Dwight L. Moody

Life and Death

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy."

Jean de La Bruyere "Les Caracteres"

Happiness

Life and Death

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life."

Albert Schweitzer

Good and Evil

Life and Death

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (speech at Greenville, N.C., Feb 8, 1963)

History and Nations

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."

Sartre-Jean-Paul

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it."

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Life and Death

Question and Problem

Rating: 4.30 (Number of Voters: 10)

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

Socrates

Joy and Sadness

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

Benjamin Franklin

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"

Paul Gauguin

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln

Life and Death

Success and Fame

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Live, let live, and help live."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life and Death

Rating: 9.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."

David Cronenberg "Cronenberg on Cronenberg"

Life and Death

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 8)

"The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him."

Oscar Wilde

Life and Death

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray."

German Proverbs

Life and Death

Rating: 5.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The best jokes are those that life plays on us."

Agnieszka Lisak

Life and Death

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Striving for better life we waste the one we already have."

Agnieszka Lisak

Happiness

Life and Death

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Stop following someone else's path, find your own."

Agnieszka Lisak

Human

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Keep changing your life into joke, the world is not worth treating seriously."

Agnieszka Lisak

Life and Death

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

Charlie Chaplin

Life and Death

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life must be something more than dilettante speculation."

Anna Julia Cooper "A Voice from the South"

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. "

Socrates

Good and Evil

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death."

J.R.R. Tolkien

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."

Robert Lee Frost

Life and Death

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?"

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."

Simone Weil

God and Religion

Life and Death

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

Victor Hugo

Life and Death

Love

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

William James

Life and Death

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."

Chamfort "Maxims and Considerations"

Life and Death

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you."

Martin Goldsmith

Destiny and Fate

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life? It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing."

William Shakespeare

Life and Death

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Life and Death

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life is a dead-end street."

Henry Louis Mencken

Life and Death

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

Henry David Thoreau

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Education

Life and Death

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is a zoo in a jungle."

Peter De Vries

Life and Death

Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."

William Somerset Maugham

Life and Death

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

Francis Bacon

Happiness

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)