Life-and-death Quotes

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: ...

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...

I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowled...

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.

peace of mind and heartarriveswhen we accept what is:having beenborn into thisstrange lifewe must ac...

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by...

Up the coast a few miles north, in a lava reef under the cliffs, there are a lot of rock pools. You ...

We live and we die and anything else is just delusion. it's just passive chick bullshit about feelin...

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

Death is never an ending, death is a change;Death is beautiful, for death is strange;Death is one dr...

in that cold autistic dark.

In the grueling light that passed for day...

There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote ...

Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation.Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of ...

Joe knew what the nod meant-this was why they became outlaws. To live moments the insurance salesman...

And as much as I wanted to, I knew I couldn't turn around, that to look at her directly was to viola...

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space b...

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald, I became very ill; some sort of poisoning. I was tran...

UselessnessLet mine not be the saddest fate of all, To live beyond my greater self; to see My facu...

And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a st...

Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying ...

Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed ...

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

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and mo...

Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs...

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t ev...

...and we go on living and breathing it into our lungs like fine dust.Until that time, I had underst...

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I wi...

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us t...

Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue...

Either a man goes and hangs himself, and then he hangs sure enough, and he'll have his reasons for i...

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Too weird to live, too rare to die!

We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability ...

Indeed the mind of Ilúvatar concerning you is not known to the Valar, and he has not revealed all th...

The earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, g...

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so ...

Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air a...

The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organizati...

You can't make a date in death's dateless night.

When I look back all is flux, without beginning and flowing towards no end, or none that I shall exp...

I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belong...

Here upon earth there is life, and then death,Dawn, and later nightfall,Fire, and the quenching of e...

I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness...I thought about the slow process of becom...

I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the...

If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what...

I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is ...

Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, a...

The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves ...

What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's...

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented i...

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exact...

Dear friend, I have searched all nightthrough each burnt paper,but I fear I will never findthe formu...

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you...

It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won...

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

Every war is the war for whoever's lived through it.

But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered t...

And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.

And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, ...

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

There were ten tongues within one head, and one went out to fetch some bread, to feed the living and...

... and we held our breath, just for a moment, to see if the world had ended, but it hadn't, so we y...

I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somew...

In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether...

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time tha...

When I was young” … “Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept ga...

Yes! all is past—swift time has fled away,Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind;How long will ho...

That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn...

No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn ear...

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ...

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs ar...

Mr. Edwards and the Spider"I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree tha...

I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotte...

You can't say it wasn't interesting.

Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens.

Death and life were just adjacent verandas.

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or hear...

To live the life the gods have given you, you must clutch wisely, then run. Run like the houds of he...

I was created to be destroyed.

It is a great wonderHow Almighty God in his magnificenceFavors our race with rank and scopeAnd the g...

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of ...

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by...

You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk ...

Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it d...

You know I don't understand what you mean, right?" I asked. "I'm counting on it," she said, and then...

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be becau...

Everyone died in solitude, after all. A simple enough truth. A truth no one need fear. The spirits w...

Personally I don’t endorse the notion of mortality. It’s fine for other folk, but I disapprove of th...

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of...

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a...

The neck in front of her came up. The head swivelled 180 degrees and the horse looked at Kin with br...