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

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

David A. Schmaltz, in Life and Death

Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

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

Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Santayana, in Life and Death

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

Carl Sandburg, 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

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

Time stands still for no man.

Leonard Reiss, in 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

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

Leonard Reiss, 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

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

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

Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.

Nicolas Martin, in Life and Death and Science and Religion

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham, in Life and Death

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey, 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