Life and Death

"Turn up the lights; I don't want to go home in the dark."

William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) last words before death

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round."

David Lodge

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties."

Sir James Jeans "Mysterious Universe"

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is perhaps most wisely regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings, and every day is a life in miniature."

Eugene O`Neill "Marco Millions"

Life and Death

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."

Eugene O`Neill "Lazarus Laughed"

Family and Loneliness

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."

Fran Lebowitz

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

Carl Sandburg

Family and Loneliness

Life and Death

Rating: 8.77 (Number of Voters: 13)

"Life is not fair, but life is not fair for everyone. That makes life fair."

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Justice

Life and Death

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you respond to it."

Louis Leo Holtz

Life and Death

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance."

Paul Boese

Life and Death

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."

Horace Walpole

Joy and Sadness

Life and Death

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life."

Irish Proverbs

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."

William James

Freedom and Servitude

Life and Death

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval."

George Santayana

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."

A. A. Milne

Life and Death

Love

Rating: 9.29 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Every man dies; not every man really lives."

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Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live."

Albert Einstein

Life and Death

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"What we do in life, echoes in eternity."

from the "Gladiator" movie

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

James Dean

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

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Life and Death

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is an echo. What you send out - you get back. What you give - you get."

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Life and Death

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Life is eternal, and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."

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Life and Death

Love

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Death cancels all engagments."

Sir Max Beerbohm

Life and Death

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."

Logan Pearsall Smith "Afterthoughts"

Joy and Sadness

Life and Death

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."

Samuel Butler "Notebooks"

Life and Death

Love

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine."

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Life is one long process of getting tired."

Samuel Butler "Notebooks"

Life and Death

Rating: 2.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."

George Santayana "Life of Reason"

Happiness

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

Vladimir Nabokov "Pale Fire"

Life and Death

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

Woody Allen

Life and Death

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self."

Cyril Connolly "Unquiet Grave"

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Woody Allen

Life and Death

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Death pay all debts."

William Shakespeare "Henry IV"

Life and Death

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."

Evan Esar

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

Rabindranath Tagore

Joy and Sadness

Life and Death

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."

Socrates

Good and Evil

Life and Death

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long."

Bertrand Russell

Life and Death

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

Thomas Mann "The Magic Mountain"

Life and Death

Love

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

God and Religion

Life and Death

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The vintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust and that life is love, laughter, and work."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."

Mahatma Gandhi

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily. "

François de La Rochefoucauld

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection."

Arthur Schopenhauer "Studies in Pessimism"

Life and Death

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is worth much more than gold."

Bob Marley

Life and Death

Richness and Money

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."

Samuel Butler

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Life, moral or physical, is not a completed fact, but a continual process, depending for its movement upon two contrary forces, the force of resistance and that of expression."

Rabindranath Tagore

Life and Death

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."

Clarence Darrow

Family and Loneliness

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"You live and learn. Or you don't live long."

Robert A. Heinlein

Education

Life and Death

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)