Life and Death

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

Benjamin Franklin, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty

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

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Life and Death

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Samuel Goldwyn, in Life and Death

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn, in Happiness and Misery and 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

It's like déjà vu all over again.

Yogi Berra, 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

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

Unknown, in Life and Death