Life and Death

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill, in Life and Death

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Kahlil Gibran, in Life and Death

I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

R. Geis, in Life and Death

Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.

R. Geis, in Life and Death

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin, in Life and Death

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Dave Farber, Icon Programming Language Home Page, in Life and Death

You draw nothing out of the bank of life except what you deposit in it.

Unknown, in Life and Death

You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Unknown, (Indian proverb), in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue

I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life.

Unknown, in 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

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

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

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Ogden Nash, Versus, in Life and Death

If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.

Count Jean Baptiste Milhoud, in Life and Death

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Ogden Nash, in Life and Death

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.

Eugene Forsey, in Life and Death

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather recognize that it is he who is asked.

Viktor Frankl, in Life and Death

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin, in Life and Death

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu, in Life and Death