Life And Death Quotes - Page 9

• Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Crazy, May

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• We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

  Horace

  Life, Inspire, Age

  "Satires" by Horace, Book I, satire i, line 117, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

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• Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Death, Dying

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.434

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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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• Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave the world. I was still in it, barely, and as I looked up from the ashes, everything around me seemed so sweet and so beautiful. The trees. The stars. The moon. I was alive -- and I was glad I was.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Sweet, Stars

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy Complete Series”, p.758, Penguin UK

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• You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Heart, Eye

  Khalil Gibran, “Death XXVII”

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• So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

  George Orwell

  Long, Humans, Human Beings

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• If we don't know life, how can we know death?

  Confucius

  Life, Death, Philosophical

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• I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Life, Religious, Ocean Exploration

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• He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

  George R. R. Martin

  Differences, Steel, True And False

  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.432, Bantam

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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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• ...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Daughter, Regret

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Trouble, Our Lives

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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• Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Night, Light, Hatred

  "Green Dolphin Country".

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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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• 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've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

  Alfred Bester

  People, Dying

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

  J. D. Salinger

  Success, Boys, Games

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• ...I don't understand this gap you see between us, but can't you meet me somewhere in the middle?" "The middle of what?" "I don't know, the middle of tomorrow and forever, the middle of life and death, the middle of normal and paranormal. Where we've always been." I bit my lip, nodding against his forehead. "There's a place for us there, right?" "Always." He put his lips to mine, sealing our own little spot in the world. Together.

  Kiersten White

  Forever, Together, Normal

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

  Stephenie Meyer

  Circles, Hunters, Circle Of Life

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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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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• 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.

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