Life and Death

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo, in Life and Death

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Plato, in Life and Death

Heed not my earthly lot, for it hath little of earth in it.

Edgar Allan Poe, in Life and Death

We come and go just like ripples in a stream.

John V. Politis, in Life and Death

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Ross Presser, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Herbert Prochnow, in Life and Death

I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead.

Leonard Reiss, in Life and Death

Time stands still for no man.

Leonard Reiss, in Life and Death

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Jean Paul Richter, in Happiness and Misery and 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

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think, and a docudrama with ugly actors for those who film docudramas.

Dr. Squid, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story...

Dr. Squid, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.

The Earl of Chesterfield, in Life and Death