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

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

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

Albert Einstein, in Life and Death

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

Albert Einstein, in Life and Death

All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.

The Earl of Chesterfield, in Life and Death

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

Voltaire, in Life and Death

Mankind terminated, man what a break.

Mark van Essen, (from a lyric written for Bruce Springsteen), in Life and Death

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

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, 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

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

He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, in Life and Death

Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.

Dennis Trudell, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

I've been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence.

Gary Trudeau, in Life and Death

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky, in Life and Death

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, in Life and Death

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.

Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure