Life And Death Life Quotes

Uselessness
Let mine not be the saddest fate of all,
To live beyond my greater self; to see
My faculties decaying, as the tree
Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall
Let me hear rather the imperious call,
Which all men dread, in my glad morning time,
And follow death ere I have reached my prime,
Or drunk the strengthening cordial of life's gall.
The lightning's stroke or the fierce tempest blast
Which fells the green tree to the earth to-day
Is kinder than the calm that lets it last,
Unhappy witness of its own decay.
May no man ever look on me and say,
'She lives, but all her usefulness is past. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The greatest loss is the lost of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death ...
... (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

The aim of all life is death. Life is the apprenticeship that we serve preparing for death. Life is the fleeting spark of divinity that precedes a deathless eternity. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Life and death issues are a universal concern. A person can learn about life by investigating the psychological and social aspects related to dying. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If I had a choice, I wouldn't be here ... I wouldn't be anywhere. ~ Faraaz Kazi

Life is measured by - the ones left behind? Or his Faith? By Love? or by the people aside you? Or it has no meaning at all? ~ Aman Jassal

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. ~ Alfred Russel Wallace

No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,
but longing to degrade not even death;
we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,
to feel its hands about us like a friend's. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Each stage of your life
is like petals of a flower...
unfolding and opening until it comes to full bloom...You will blossom and then you die...But know that this is not your ending. ~ Summerlyn Guthrie

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing? ~ A.B. Shepherd

Would we believe their story; if the dead should return? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Student: I don't feel like living anymore. Teacher: If you don't feel like doing something then don't do. This means that in finding many ways how not to live your life, you have the possibility to discover how to live your life. ~ Santosh Kalwar

Life is real, and death is the illusion. ~ Mary Baker Eddy

Usually, we hate the noise but sometimes we feel empty without that noise! ~ Nikhil Karke

The bell tolls with a painful note afar
When man drops in the dreadful jaws of death
But human beasts watch death with mouth ajar
While lifeless church bell feels the pangs of death ~ Manuel Newton-Management Consultant Poet MA M.Com LLB ICWA FIBAM FIMM Etc

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death. ~ Paul Theroux

I'm still very critical of myself, but I've learned to deal with it. You know that every at-bat is important, but it's not life and death. ~ Troy Glaus

The only time that exists in life is now. ~ Ken Poirot

Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people while they're still alive! That way, they can know that we're thinking about them! I always tell people when I'm thinking about them, or that I thought about them, or that I have been thinking about them and it almost always scares them away, but so what, I am practicing the art of life and if that is frightening to them then maybe they need to start living while they're still alive! ~ C. JoyBell C.

The day you are born is the day you start dying ~ Soroosh Shahrivar

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

What if souls could cross over at the point of life and death...? ~ Darragh J Brady

Prisoner of Her Own Captivity ~ Brandalynn Davis

I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death. ~ David Shrigley

Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death. ~ Joseph Campbell

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death. ~ George Eads

He's weak, afraid and dumber than your dog.
Besides, you gonna bet the farm on a pig?

The Alien Club ~ Trel Sidoruk

Hershey Pennsylvania was self-proclaimed as the "Sweetest Place On Earth," but less advertised than chocolate, it was also home to one of the state's largest Children's Hospitals. The streets lined with Hershey Kiss–shaped streetlamps that led excited children and families on vacation to chocolate tour rides and rollercoasters were the same exact streets that led anxious children and families to x-rays and MRIs on the worsts days of their lives.
Chocolate was being created on the same street that childhood diseases were being diagnosed. And that was life. The sweetest of sensations and the deepest of devastations live next door to each other. ~ Tessa Shaffer

Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death. ~ Paul Stamets

No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it. ~ Carroll Bryant

When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people. ~ Solange Nicole

The only promise life fulfills is its end. ~ Jennifer Ellision

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone. ~ Teju Cole

Life has an end.
It can end at any moment. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing. ~ Leo Tolstoy

As we witness the death of departed souls, other people will observe our departure from the world. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should ~ Terry Pratchett

Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides. ~ Aleksandra Layland

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death ~ Ruben Dario

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death. ~ Haddon W. Robinson

Practicing kindness and selflessness, you naturally align your life with the Integral Way. Aligning your life with the Integral Way, you begin to eliminate the illusory boundaries between people and societies, between darkness and light, between life and death. ~ Brian Browne Walker

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death. ~ Andrew Cuomo

We are God's partners in matters of life and death. ~ Barack Obama

Life is transient and death is unfathomable, but questions nonetheless abound. What is the driving purpose behind the prosodic life of an ordinary person such as me? What emotional rhythms, pitches, pauses, stresses, and intonations drive the meter of person's life? When the church bells toll my parting day, what tone will it strike in the hearts of other people, if any? Is there a person whoever traversed this crusty rock that we call planet Earth who did not wish for other people to remember them after their death? I confess sharing the vain longing of all men, however humble, to be remembered, not for the crimes that I committed but for fully expressing the poetic gift of life. When I ask what other people will think when I die, I must also ask why I lived, what did I live for, and what joy did I bring other people, if any. What acts, thoughts, and deeds make people beloved? What resounding chime resonates with all loving people? What magical filament binds us? What serves as the ethereal umbilical cord that causes all conscience stricken humans to crave the same universal sense of being? ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death. ~ Bear Grylls

Drink deep the cup of life; take it's dark wine into your soul. For it passes round the table only once. ~ Jack McDevitt

For me, it's too late,
Don't suffer my fate.
I once walked the earth
Inert to life's worth.
Routine, my shield,
I loathed foreign field.
Too late did I wake up
To drink from life's cup.
Be bold in life,
Do not shun strife.
Soon you will be here
And lost, all you hold dear. ~ Alpha Four

Life is past and death vil be the future... ~ Nadeem V Abdu

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death! ~ Mimi Kennedy

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity.
Yet many others search their entire lives for something - or someone - worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

Life is a transition. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every night I go to sleep with the hope to wake up next morning. How do I call it? Trust maybe? ~ Manasa Rao

I think it's really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death. ~ Freddie Stroma

Caught between life and death, I clung to life. ~ Diogo Mainardi

One should be afraid of life, not of death. ~ Marlene Dietrich

When Your Life Looks Back,

When your life looks back--
As it will, at itself, at you--what will it say?

Inch of colored ribbon cut from the spool.
Flame curl, blue-consuming the log it flares from.
Bay leaf. Oak leaf. Cricket. One among many.

Your life will carry you as it did always,
With ten fingers and both palms,
With horizontal ribs and upright spine,
With its filling and emptying heart,
That wanted only your own heart, emptying, filled, in return.
You gave it. What else could do?

Immersed in air or in water.
Immersed in hunger or anger.
Curious even when bored.
Longing even when running away.

"What will happen next?"--
the question hinged in your knees, your ankles,
in the in-breaths even of weeping.
Strongest of magnets, the future impartial drew you in.
Whatever direction you turned toward was face to face.
No back of the world existed,
No unseen corner, no test. No other earth to prepare for.

This, your life had said, its only pronoun.
Here, your life had said, its only house.
Let, your life had said, its only order.

And did you have a choice in this? You did--

Sleeping and waking,
the horses around you, the mountains around you,
The buildings with their tall, hydraulic shafts.
Those of your own kind around you--

A few times, you stood on your head.
A few t ~ Jane Hirshfield

When I first accepted my own death, the world was intantly changed. It was a completely new sensation. It took something like this to finally open my eyes. Before, I had simply shut myself off so that I could not see, could not hear. What had I been doing all this time? ~ Mohiro Kitoh

A person, who has everything seeks life;
A person,who has nothing ,seeks death;
A person, who looks beyond everything seeks the meaning of life.
To a person who gets everything in life,
life is a boon,
To a person who is deprived of everything in life,
death is a boon.
The richest of the rich seeks,
life earnestly;
The poorest of the poor seeks,
death earnestly.
If you know this:
You will not follow,
the world which gives and takes away money,
You will follow,
God who gives and takes away life. ~ Luffina Lourduraj

The whirlwind of life.
Spinning so quickly you can loose sight.
But hold tight.
In a blink of an eye, time swallows light. ~ Ann Marie Frohoff

To embrace all things means also that one rids oneself of any concept of separation; male and female, self and other, life and death. ~ Brian Browne Walker

I want to master life and death. ~ Ted Bundy

If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death. ~ Bill Parcells

Death is the final destination of every man. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life even at its tiniest molecule is impermanent, transient, unsure and fickle. We try to make it worthwhile not by adding value to it but by improving our social perception, seeking validation in our interactional circles. Life cannot be valued for in the end, rich or poor, smart or dumb, popular or hermit, we are nothing but dust, vapor, blurry memories that eventually are soon forgotten. ~ Crystal Evans

But this you must know: the violent murder of a mother- when a boy is at the tender age, when he is just discovering girls- it is a terrible thing. confusingly mixed up with all the things feminine, it leaves a charred residue on the soul, like the black marks found at the bottom of a burned pot. no matter how much you scrub and scrub the pot bottom with steel wool and cleansers, the scars, they are permanent ~ Richard C. Morais

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death. ~ Alain Robert

He thought back to everything that happened the night before: the hooded men, the chase, his tired heart and weak legs. The very moment in which Mathias realized it was over, when he'd decided to sacrifice his own life in order to save the young man by his side, the monk had found something fundamental inside himself. Deep in his soul, in that hidden place that can only be discovered when a person finds himself poised on the edge of the abyss, gasping what he thought was his last breath, he'd suddenly seen it. Only then did he realize what he held dearest in his heart. Because the last thing to cross his mind, what he'd thought about the moment he'd spun around, prepared to impale himself on the blade, had been a face. No thoughts of God or faith or any other saint. A face. That's when everything became clear. ~ Riccardo Bruni

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin. ~ Steven J. Carroll

We live in a very entertaining world, but the sad fact is that so much of that entertainment is fruitless and empty. Only building nothing but failure and sadness. ~ Auliq Ice

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Never judge a person how he died, but how he lived. ~ Rudolf Jerome Ragay

The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth. ~ Raheel Farooq

We can not tell what can happen in a minute.
How fragile is our life.
Soon we are gone and forgotten.
But our memories lives on. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is lived a foretold conclusion, your eventual destiny is at the door ~ Deon Potgieter

If thou has passion for faith thou dost preach
Regard for God whose mercy thou beseech
Love for the soil out of which thou art born
Why dost thou slay thy brethren, held in scorn?
The land on which I was born is not mine
That giveth bread and roof is mine and thine
And few yards of soil for grave benign
We are sons of this lovely earth divine ~ Manuel Newton-Management Consultant And Poet MA M.Com LLB ICWA FIBAM FIMM Etc Http Elsela-newtonsboo

It's not that people don't know when they'll die. It's that they don't seem to know they'll die. ~ Raheel Farooq

Death or Samadhi, man's life leads only to the grave. Appreciate your life. ~ Usha Cosmico

Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or. ~ Eileen Wilks

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. ~ Angela Carter

All souls have a body. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Then he asked me which one I thought was most likely to happen. I wish I knew. I really do. But I don't. You'd think that after living with these people for fifteen years I'd know a little something about them. But right now I feel like I don't know my parents at all. I guess
when you get down to it, I've never really thought about them as people. They've always been my parents. Now I have to think about them as people with feelings. What a pain.
The funny thing is, I bet they feel the same way. ~ Michael Thomas Ford

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime. ~ Shirley Jackson

That propensity of lifting every problem from the plane of the understandable by means of some sort of mystic expression, is very Russian. I knew her well enough to have discovered her scorn for all the practical forms of political liberty known to the western world. I suppose one must be a Russian to understand Russian simplicity, a terrible corroding simplicity in which mystic phrases clothe a naive and hopeless cynicism. I think sometimes that the psychological secret of the profound difference of that people consists in this, that they detest life, the irremediable life of the earth as it is, whereas we westerners cherish it with perhaps an equal exaggeration of its sentimental value. But this is a digression indeed ... ~ Joseph Conrad

They assessed my age and assigned me a birthday. ~ Davan Yahya Khalil

The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world. ~ Tom Robbins

I have noticed that most people don't use more than a pea size equivalent of their brain. They can't process more than one idea each time. If I say that my grandparents were from Switzerland and then I was born somewhere else, they will forget the somewhere else and focus on Switzerland; If I say that my name originates in the South of France before saying my nationality, it becomes irrelevant as well. And I'm surprised at how many people get offended when I tell them I can easily brainwash them with new ideas and convince them that I'm right. It's not my fault but theirs, for not knowing how to think. They shouldn't blame the overthinker but the underthinker. And yet, I hear so many times this explanation for any kind of life problem: "You think too much". Everything serves as an excuse to be stupid in this world. And then the majority wonders why getting a job is so difficult for them. It's not for overthinkers. I used to be called for job interviews because I was a rule breaker; I would hide my age and be called because the interviewer wanted to ask me how old I am; or paint the letters of my CV in green and be called because it was the first to be noticed among thousands in black and white. The only problem about overthinking is that you will eventually overcome the norm. That's why I don't need a job anymore; I have outthought the majority. ~ Robin Sacredfire

God reminded me again that day that I have one purpose, in Uganda and in life, and that is to love. I could ask for no greater assignment. ~ Katie J. Davis

Is it your conviction that small-town life, centered on church, tradition, and fear of God, is our best bulwark against murder and mayhem? Well, think again. As Europe became more urban, cosmopolitan, commercial, industrialized, and secular, it got safer and safer. And that brings us back to the ideas of Norbert Elias, the only theory left standing. Elias ~ Steven Pinker

... people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood. ~ Terry Pratchett

We give them material things and take delight in their delight in possessions. Then we hope that somewhere down the line they will see that a life worth living is found only in knowing and serving God. ~ Tedd Tripp

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted. ~ Jacqueline Carey

What makes you come alive? What keeps you going ? Is there hope in your heart still or has the weariness of the world attached itself to you like a limpet leaving you afraid and passionless? Do you wake up with a smile and stars in your eyes after restless, feverish soul-searching in the night? Do you dream, dream beyond what is possible and beyond the narrow confines of your jaded existence? How old do you feel? How much in love can you fall? How much step is there in your dance, o how many notes left in your song ? Have you decided to sit by and watch others dance or weep at the dying notes of your own swan song?

Shake your lethargy. Come alive to innocence once more. Believe past your own jaded cynicism. Pretend you are young once more. Jump up with a spring in your feet, fall breathlessly in love again. Let the colors of the world wash over your walls, brushing the greys away. Let the sunlight of hope flood through your doubting self, o let the music play.

Dance till you ache and drop, laugh till you cry. Sing till your lungs burst, and journey till the very road ends and dream by the moonless starless nights. Sleep with a secret smile on your lips, your body flush with the imprints of lips. Come alive, my dearest ...reclaim yourself from the living dead.

Life beckons ~ Srividya Srinivasan

The soul of man, like the bird in the shell, is still growing or ripening in sin or grace, till at last the shell breaks by death, and the soul flies away to the piece it is prepared for, and where it must abide forever. ~ John Flavel

Sexual pleasure was not only superior, in refinement and violence, to all the other pleasures life had to offer; it was not only the one pleasure with which there is no collateral damage to the organism, but which on the contrary contributes to maintaining it at its highest level of vitality and strength; it was in truth the sole pleasure, the sole objective of human existence, ~ Michel Houellebecq

I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life. ~ Dave Grohl

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment. ~ Sigmund Freud

Health is more than the mere absence of disease, it's the presence of a superior state of well being, a pizzazz, a vitality that has to be worked for each and every day of your life. You cannot get it in a bottle or from Dr. Phil. Its got to be gotten through diet and execise and rest and recreation and attitudes of mind working all together every day of your life and then, young men can become supermen and old men can become older ... ~ Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

I have walked much of my life in fear, never truly finding a place where I knew I belonged. Rejection, victimization, and divorce has left me like a beggar, seeking desperately to find my blessing somewhere, to find it anywhere. I didn't know who I was or where I was going. I didn't know how significant I was or what the meaning of my life was, and the saddest part of this is that I didn't fully realize that God was holding the blessing for me that I was so desperately seeking. ~ Tim Young