Life And Death Quotes - Page 10

• Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Circles, Hunters, Circle Of Life

  16 Copy quote

• A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

  George Eliot

  Men, Likes, Medical

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.249, Broadview Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want them to be told to remember me.

  Garrison Keillor

  Want, Remember, Remember Me

  "A Prairie Home Companion". www.imdb.com. 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

  Agatha Christie

  Hands, Clothes, Heaven

  7 Copy quote

• Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Love Is, Tides, Steel

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.577, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The bluejacket girlie rode like a clan warrior, but there was no way she'd escape. It was a private life-and-death contest that had nothing to do with him. He told himself he should ride on, grateful that the chase would keep them occupied while he took a different path. But what had he told Rebecca when she'd asked what he meant to do when he returned to the Fells? 'I'm tired of people in power picking on the weak. I'm going to help them.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Grateful, Tired, Warrior

  4 Copy quote

• Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

  Emile M. Cioran

  People, Overcoming, Life Is

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Death, Memories

  Walt Whitman (2016). “The Patriotic Poems”, p.72, Walt Whitman

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.

  Aberjhani

  Shining, Rebirth, Something New

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.66, Lulu.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good. Death and life. Everywhere, opposites.

  George R. R. Martin

  Beautiful, Summer, Sweet

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1746, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Mean, Differences, Sometimes

  Anthony Horowitz (2007). “Ark Angel”, p.76, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.

  Mira Grant

  Beautiful, Lying, Choices

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.133, Hachette UK

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.

  Albert Einstein

  Eye, Imperfection, Together

  60 Copy quote

• Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Wall, Boys, Doors

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In greatness, life and death merge.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Greatness

  4 Copy quote

• Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain. It's yours. It's all yours for taking! You're not going to waste it now, are you?

  James Patterson

  Responsibility, World Love, Saving

  4 Copy quote

• We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.

  Paul Auster

  Fate, Men, Long

  Paul Auster (2012). “Winter Journal”, p.182, Macmillan

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that "ultimate reality is a unity of opposites" is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Believe, Opposites

  Ken Wilber (1979). “No Boundary, Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, Great Eastern Book Company

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

  Knut Hamsun

  Umbrella, Rhyme, Eternal

  Knut Hamsun (2011). “Mysteries”, p.35, Souvenir Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  e. e. cummings

  Mean, People, Doe

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.271, W. W. Norton & Company

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.

  Paul Eldridge

  Life, Death, Tombstone

  8 Copy quote

• And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress Weatherwax. There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, People, Mistress

  4 Copy quote

• We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them.

  Christopher Pike

  Past, Thinking, Long

  Christopher Pike (2001). “Witch”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

  Tom Waits

  Funny, Life, Death

  13 Copy quote

• What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Father, Eye, Son

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.329, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source