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

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

Carl Sandburg, in Life and Death

Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Santayana, in Life and Death

Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

George Saunders, (dying words), in Life and Death

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

David A. Schmaltz, in Life and Death

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, in Life and Death

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, in Life and Death

Life is too important to take seriously.

Corky Siegel, 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

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.

Josef Stalin, in Altruism and Cynicism and 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

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

Leon Trotsky, in 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

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

Dennis Trudell, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

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

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, in Life and Death