Life and Death

"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."

Matthew Arnold "Sohrab and Rustum"

Life and Death

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness."

Rémy De Gourmont "Selected Writings"

Life and Death

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."

William James "The Varieties of Religious Experience"

Life and Death

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We die of too much life."

Herman Melville "Mardi"

Life and Death

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."

Cesare Pavese "The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950"

Life and Death

Memory

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers' wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death."

John Donne "Eighty Sermons"

Freedom and Servitude

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage."

George Bernard Shaw "Back to Methuselah"

Health and Alcohol

Life and Death

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "In Search of Goethe from Within"

Intellect, Judgement

Life and Death

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirious of living more do we really live."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "The Dehumanization of Art"

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him."

David Herbert Lawrence "The Plumed Serpent"

Life and Death

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."

Stefan Zweig "The World of Yesterday"

Life and Death

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

Minna Antrim "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Wherever art appears, life disappears."

Francis Picabia

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"[...] parables are unnecessary for recognizing the blatant absurdity of everyday life. Reality is lesson enough."

Jane O`Reilly "The Girl I Left Behind"

Life and Death

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."

Jean Anouilh "Becket"

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

Horace Walpole

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."

Lauren Bacall

Life and Death

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."

G. I. Gurdjieff

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness."

Henrik Ibsen "The Wild Duck"

Happiness

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"See in what peace a Christian can die."

Joseph Addison (last words)

God and Religion

Life and Death

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence."

Jean Rostand "The Substance of Man"

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Authority forgets a dying king."

Alfred Tennyson "Idylls of the King"

Authority, Government

Life and Death

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"

Joy and Sadness

Life and Death

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."

Ingmar Bergman

Health and Alcohol

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Destiny and Fate

Life and Death

Sports

Rating: 6.57 (Number of Voters: 7)

"The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself."

John Fowles

Life and Death

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

William James

Life and Death

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."

James M. Barrie "The Little Minister"

Life and Death

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

Carl Sandburg

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Anais Nin "The Diary of Anais Nin"

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life is so constructed that we move through different phases and stages, each requiring the skills and wisdom of the previous ones."

Anne Wilson Schaef

Education

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another..."

Charles Monroe Schulz "Charlie Brown"

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

Henry Van Dyke

Joy and Sadness

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

Sophia Loren

Defeates and Mistakes

Life and Death

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life and Death

Trust

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives."

Louise Hay

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art."

Jane Heap

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think."

Chinese Proverbs

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 2.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Poverty is death in another form."

Latin Proverbs

Life and Death

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Life and Death

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering."

Francois Rabelais

Health and Alcohol

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life may have no meaning -- or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Life and Death

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Poetry is life distilled."

Gwendolyn Brooks

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity."

Chateaubriand-Francois-Rene-de

God and Religion

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation."

Leo Buscaglia

Life and Death

Love

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I never speak ill of dead people or live judges."

Edwin W. Edwards

Law and Crime

Life and Death

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."

Soichiro Honda

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is only error,
And death is knowledge."

Friedrich von Schiller "Cassandra"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Life and Death

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

Life and Death

"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."

"Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness."

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."

"We die of too much life."

"The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."

"We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers' wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death."

"Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage."

"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."

"Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirious of living more do we really live."

"There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him."

"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."

"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

"Wherever art appears, life disappears."

"[...] parables are unnecessary for recognizing the blatant absurdity of everyday life. Reality is lesson enough."

"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."

"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."

"Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness."

"See in what peace a Christian can die."

"I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence."

"Authority forgets a dying king."

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."

"The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself."

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"Life is so constructed that we move through different phases and stages, each requiring the skills and wisdom of the previous ones."

"That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another..."

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives."

"To express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art."

"Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think."

"Poverty is death in another form."

"Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously."

"Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering."

"Life may have no meaning -- or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove."

"Poetry is life distilled."

"Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity."

"Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation."

"I never speak ill of dead people or live judges."

"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."

"Life is only error, And death is knowledge."

"Life is only error,
And death is knowledge."