Welcome to my collection of quotes about life and death. Hope you like them and learn from these quotes about life and death. Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. George Bernard Shaw Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Lao Tzu For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Khalil Gibran If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do. Angelina Jolie Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. Buddha Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. Confucius Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. Mel Brooks Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. Friedrich Nietzsche Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Steve Jobs Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. Carl Jung There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? Woody Allen Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. Thomas Merton Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. Emily Dickinson There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. Soren Kierkegaard There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now. Angelina Jolie There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. Dwight D. Eisenhower One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. Jean-Paul Sartre Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. William Blake An unused life is an early death. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |