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

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

William Allen White, in Life and Death

Either those curtains go or I do.

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

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder, in Life and Death

In the end, everything is a gag.

Charlie Chaplin, in Life and Death

After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Marcus Porcius Cato, in Life and Death

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

James Carse, in Life and Death

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti, in Life and Death

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

Albert Camus, The Stranger, in Life and Death

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Steven Coallier, in Life and Death

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler, in Life and Death

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier, in Life and Death

Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov, in Life and Death

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Health and Disease and Life and Death

Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Life and Death and Men and Women

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

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

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

Carl Sandburg, in Life and Death