Life and Death

I don't feel good.

Luther Burbank, (dying words), in Life and Death

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

Unknown, in Life and Death

The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.

Unknown, in Life and Death

The secret to life is that there is no secret.

Unknown, in Life and Death

To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benét, in Life and Death

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Berlioz, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind.

George Bernard, in Law and Politics and Life and Death

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin, in Life and Death

Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.

R. Geis, in Life and Death

I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

R. Geis, in Life and Death

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Kahlil Gibran, in Life and Death

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill, in Life and Death

Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.

Daniel Defoe, in Life and Death

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

Daniel Dennett, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller, in Life and Death

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.

Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.

Eugene Forsey, in Life and Death