Quotes

My favorites:

"Where there is love, there is life!"

"Death comes as slowly as life!"

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"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen

Woody Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

"Death, thou shalt die." - John Donne

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

Who knows if life is a destination? Life is a journey.
ANONYMOUS

Some people say life is hard. Compared to what?
ANONYMOUS

The business of living is inspired by an effort to see things whole and steadily.
CHARLES A. BEARD

Life is so great a mystery that we need not invent others.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Be careful how you live your life for it is the only Gospel others will read.
HELDER CAMARA

Life is one long quarrel with God. But we can make up at the end.
THOMAS CARLISLE

Sometimes the thing our life misses helps more than the thing which it gets.
ALICE CARY

Life is not a vessel to be drained, but a cup to be filled.
CHINESE PROVERB

The law of life is development, not destruction.
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE

The tragedy of life is not death, but what dies inside us while we live.
NORMAN COUSINS

Nothing in life is to be feared?-it is only to be
understood.
MARIE CURIE

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.
EPICTETUS

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
MOHANDAS K. GANDHI

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

To live is to adapt.
GOETHE

Our responsibility is not for life but for living.
ELIZABETH GOUDGE

Life is a school, not a bargain counter.
GRENFELL

Living is what man does with God's time.
ABRAHAM HESCHEL

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
WILLIAM JAMES

The test of a man's worth is not his theology but his life.
MORRIS JOSEPH

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
THOMAS LAMANCE

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
MENANDER

What matters is not when we die but how we live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Nothing in life has value except to do right and to fear not.
GILBERT MURRAY

Although life is all too short it can be ever so wide.
DAVID NARDI

Life is creation continuing.
NANCY NEWHALL

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
EMIL NOLDE

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
BORIS PASTERNAK

Live simply that others may simply live.
QUAKER PRECEPT

Life is not a dogma to be defended but a reality to be explored.
FLOYD ROSS

There is no wealth but life itself.
JOHN RUSKIN

May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Give back life for life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Our life is frittered away by detail . . . Simplify!
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Trouble is the necessary salt of life without which life loses its savor.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE

The best way to know life is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Living, like studying, needs a little practice.
OCTAVIA WALDO

A rose to the living is more than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.
NIXON WATERMAN

one more...

Death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
ROSSITER W. RAYMOND

"Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all." - Abd-El-Kader

The rest is silence-Bill Shakespeare.