Life and Death

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

Alfred Adler, in Life and Death

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin, in Life and Death

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

R. Geis, 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

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

Kahlil Gibran, in Life and Death

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

Brendan Gill, in Life and Death

Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz, in Life and Death

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Euripides, Orestia, 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

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.

Benjamin Franklin, in Life and Death

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein, in Life and Death

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think, and a docudrama with ugly actors for those who film docudramas.

Dr. Squid, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story...

Dr. Squid, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.

The Earl of Chesterfield, in Life and Death

I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.

Albert Einstein, in Life and Death

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller, in Life and Death

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.

Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure