Life and Death

"This life is a hospital in which each patient is obsessed with the desire to change beds."

Charles Baudelaire

Life and Death

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."

Edward Dahlberg

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Defeates and Mistakes

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life and Death

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."

Burton Hills

Happiness

Life and Death

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is lived in common, but not in community."

Michael Harrington

Family and Loneliness

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Whom the gods love dies young."

Menander

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."

Oscar Wilde

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you."

Jane Wagner "Edith Ann"

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is going on."

Jane Wagner "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [...]"

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you."

Jane Wagner "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [...]"

Life and Death

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all."

Indian Proverbs

Life and Death

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."

Christopher Morley "Thunder on the Left"

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."

Reinhold Niebuhr "Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic"

God and Religion

Intellect, Judgement

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."

John Donne "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions"

Life and Death

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"This mortal air is one wide pestilence, that kills us all at last."

Herman Melville "Mardi"

Life and Death

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Life is the desert, life the solitude,
Death joins us to the great majority."

Edward Young "The Revenge"

Family and Loneliness

Life and Death

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man."

Percival Arland Ussher "An Alphabet of Aphorisms"

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

Virginia Woolf "The Common Reader, First Series"

Life and Death

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We die, because we live."

Herman Melville "Mardi"

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."

Flip Wilson

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?"

William Morris "News From Nowhere"

Life and Death

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!"

Matt Frewer

Life and Death

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life is an effort that deserves a better cause."

Karl Kraus "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"When you jumped in here, you were my enemy and I was afraid of you. But you're just a man like me, and I killed you. Forgive me, comrade."

Maxwell Anderson "All Quiet On The Western Front"

Friendship and Hostility

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is not a dress rehearsal."

Rose Tremain

Life and Death

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be - a cake, which I have eaten and had too."

Margaret Anderson "The Fiery Fountains"

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The secret of a long life is knowing when it's time to go."

Michele Shocked

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday."

Georg Büchner "The Hessian Messenger"

Life and Death

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Death is the most blessed dream."

Georg Büchner "Leonce and Lena"

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on."

Herman Melville "Mardi"

Life and Death

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end. "

Multatuli (Eduard Douwer Dekker) "The Oyster and the Eagle"

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever."

Georg Büchner "Leonce and Lena"

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

James M. Barrie

Life and Death

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within sleep."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Essays, Second Series"

Life and Death

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Most suicides are committed with a knife and fork."

Swedish Proverbs

Health and Alcohol

Life and Death

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Life and Death

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises."

Günther Grass

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life."

Paul Tillich "Christianity and the Encounter of the World Reli"

God and Religion

Life and Death

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful."

George Bernard Shaw "Back to Methuselah"

Life and Death

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked."

St. Ambrose "De bono mortis"

Justice

Life and Death

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."

Graham Greene "The Heart of the Matter"

Life and Death

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent."

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Life and Death

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity."

John Lennon

Life and Death

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life begins at forty."

Walter B. Pitkin "Life begins at forty"

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

Thomas Gray "Poetical Works"

Life and Death

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

Life and Death

"This life is a hospital in which each patient is obsessed with the desire to change beds."

"When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."

"Life is lived in common, but not in community."

"Whom the gods love dies young."

"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."

"The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you."

"Our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is going on."

"I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you."

"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."

"It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all."

"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."

"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."

"This mortal air is one wide pestilence, that kills us all at last."

"Life is the desert, life the solitude, Death joins us to the great majority."

"A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man."

"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

"We die, because we live."

"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."

"The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?"

"Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!"

"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."

"Life is an effort that deserves a better cause."

"When you jumped in here, you were my enemy and I was afraid of you. But you're just a man like me, and I killed you. Forgive me, comrade."

"Life is not a dress rehearsal."

"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be - a cake, which I have eaten and had too."

"The secret of a long life is knowing when it's time to go."

"The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday."

"Death is the most blessed dream."

"In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on."

"Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end. "

"The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever."

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

"Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within sleep."

"Most suicides are committed with a knife and fork."

"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."

"Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises."

"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life."

"Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful."

"Death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked."

"We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."

"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent."

"Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity."

"Life begins at forty."

"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

"Life is the desert, life the solitude,
Death joins us to the great majority."