Life and Death

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

Albert Einstein, in Life and Death

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

Albert Einstein, 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

It's like déjà vu all over again.

Yogi Berra, in 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

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

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

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benét, in Life and Death

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Berlioz, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind.

George Bernard, in Law and Politics and 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

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

Unknown, 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

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

John Barrymore, (dying words), in Life and Death

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

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure