Life And Death quotes
360 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor."
"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow."
"If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man."
"The meaning of life is that it stops."
"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."
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"One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways."
"Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again."
"I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human."
"There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING."
"Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil."
"It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity."
"It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free."
"Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves."
"Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear."
"Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death."
"I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil."
"As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues."
"Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful."
"The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death."
"[Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the loss of the Word preached more than the loss of peace and trade? Is it the removal of the ark that troubles us? Again, do we attend to the Word with reverential devotion? When the judge is giving the charge on the bench, all attend. When the Word is preached, the great God is giving us his charge. Do we listen to it as to a matter of life and death? This is a good sign that we love the Word."
"one should be afraid of life, not of death."
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?"
"In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death."
"Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure."
"The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days."
