Life and Death

Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain, in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, in Life and Death

Mankind terminated, man what a break.

Mark van Essen, (from a lyric written for Bruce Springsteen), 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

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

M. Scott Peck, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Plato, in Life and Death

Heed not my earthly lot, for it hath little of earth in it.

Edgar Allan Poe, in Life and Death

We come and go just like ripples in a stream.

John V. Politis, in Life and Death

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Ross Presser, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Herbert Prochnow, in Life and Death

I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead.

Leonard Reiss, in Life and Death

Time stands still for no man.

Leonard Reiss, in Life and Death

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Jean Paul Richter, in Happiness and Misery and 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

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

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

Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.

Nicolas Martin, in Life and Death and Science and Religion

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham, in Life and Death

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.

Marshall McLuhan, (reprinted in the Hope Heart Health Newsletter), 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