Life and Death

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behaviour is our only hope for a pardon.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Ed Howe, in Life and Death

Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard, in Life and Death

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo, in Life and Death

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Aldous Huxley, in Life and Death

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Life and Death

Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Life and Death

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Life and Death

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Franklin P. Jones, in Life and Death

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones, 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

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow, in Life and Death

Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.

Daniel Defoe, in Life and Death

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

Daniel Dennett, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

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