Life and Death

Fairy tales: Horror stories for children to get them used to reality.

Unknown, in Life and Death

For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Kennedy.

Unknown, in Life and Death

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire, in Life and Death

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Karl Wallenda, in Life and Death

Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all.

Marilyn Manson, in Life and Death

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

William Allen White, in Life and Death

Either those curtains go or I do.

Oscar Wilde, (last words), in Life and Death

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder, in Life and Death

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Earl Wilson, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

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

Alfred Adler, in Life and Death

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

Kehlog Albran, in Life and Death

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by living forever.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death

Live to win, dare to fail.

James Hetfield, in 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