Life and Death

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Earl Wilson, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder, in Life and Death

Either those curtains go or I do.

Oscar Wilde, (last words), in Life and Death

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

William Allen White, in Life and Death

Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all.

Marilyn Manson, in Life and Death

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Karl Wallenda, in Life and Death

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky, in Life and Death

I've been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence.

Gary Trudeau, in Life and Death

Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.

Dennis Trudell, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, in Life and Death

The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, in Life and Death

Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain, in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue

Mankind terminated, man what a break.

Mark van Essen, (from a lyric written for Bruce Springsteen), 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

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

Daniel Defoe, in Life and Death

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow, in Life and Death

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

Daniel Dennett, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

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

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

He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance