Life and Death

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder, 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

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

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

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Dave Farber, Icon Programming Language Home Page, in Life and Death

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Unknown, (Indian proverb), in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue

You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

You draw nothing out of the bank of life except what you deposit in it.

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

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

Dennis Trudell, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Mankind terminated, man what a break.

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

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

Gary Trudeau, 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

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

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, in Life and Death