Life and Death

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

Maurice Chevalier, 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

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

In the end, everything is a gag.

Charlie Chaplin, 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

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

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

Samuel Butler, in Life and Death

Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.

Unknown, in Life and Death

The secret to life is that there is no secret.

Unknown, in Life and Death

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder, in 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

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osler, in Life and Death

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

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

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

Sean O'Casey, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Either those curtains go or I do.

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