Life and Death

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.

Doug Larson, in Life and Death

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

Doug Larson, in Life and Death

Life is ours to be spent, not saved.

D. H. Lawrence, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

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

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

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

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler, in Life and Death

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

Albert Camus, The Stranger, in Life and Death

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti, in Life and Death

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

James Carse, in Life and Death

After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Marcus Porcius Cato, in Life and Death

In the end, everything is a gag.

Charlie Chaplin, in Life and Death

Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov, in Life and Death

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier, 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

If you're here, you're alive.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance