Life and Death

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Life and Death

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Alfred Adler, in Life and Death

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.

Marshall McLuhan, (reprinted in the Hope Heart Health Newsletter), in Life and Death

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by living forever.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, in Life and Death

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.

Josef Stalin, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

Life is too important to take seriously.

Corky Siegel, in Life and Death

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, in Life and Death

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, in Life and Death

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

David A. Schmaltz, 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

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Paul Rudnick, in Life and Death and Science and Religion

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

Carl Sandburg, in Life and Death

Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Santayana, in Life and Death

Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

George Saunders, (dying words), in Life and Death

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Plato was a bore.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

I've never been this old in my entire life.

Rev. J. D. O'Neal, (sermon: "Redeeming the Time"), in Life and Death