Life and Death

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder, in Life and Death

Either those curtains go or I do.

Oscar Wilde, (last words), 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

Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all.

Marilyn Manson, in Life and Death

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Karl Wallenda, in Life and Death

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire, in Life and Death

Mankind terminated, man what a break.

Mark van Essen, (from a lyric written for Bruce Springsteen), in Life and Death

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

John Barrymore, (dying words), in Life and Death

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benét, 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

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Life and Death

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.

Marshall McLuhan, (reprinted in the Hope Heart Health Newsletter), 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

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

Leon Trotsky, 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

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

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate