Life And Death Quotes - Page 7

• There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

  Mitch Albom

  Men, Good Man, Young

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• I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.

  Robert Longo

  Thinking, Issues, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

  Plato

  Men, Thinking, Good Man

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

  Francois Rabelais

  Life, Death, Insanity

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• Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

  Euripides

  Men, Want, Bears

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.122, University of Chicago Press

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• I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Desire, Desire To Live, Dies

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.110, Zed Books

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• It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

  Helene Cixous

  Language, Said, Power Of Language

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• The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

  Zeno of Elea

  Success, Inspirational Life, Garden

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• What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems—the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.

  J. I. Packer

  Loneliness, Self, Meaning Of Life

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• It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

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• At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty

  Cate Tiernan

  Giving Up, Pain, Rose

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Awakening: Book Five”, p.116, Penguin

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• I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

  Julianna Baggott

  Running, Believe, Men

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• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Issues, God Life, Condemnation

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1985). “A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen”, p.40, Ignatius Press

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• In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.

  Clement Attlee

  War, Struggle, Destiny

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• If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

  Greg Graffin

  Destiny, Goal, Design

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Business, Turkeys

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• Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Heartbroken, Courage, Carpe Diem

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• 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

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• Life is not a dress rehearsal.

  Rose Tremain

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  "Sebastian Coe must be running on Jedi mind control" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Space, Solitude, Eternity

  Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso

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