Life and Death

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Steven Coallier, 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

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Georges Courteline, in Life and Death

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Cousteau, 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

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.

Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller, in Life and Death

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

Daniel Dennett, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow, in Life and Death

Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.

Daniel Defoe, in Life and Death

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett, in Life and Death

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

Charles Bukowski, in Life and Death

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Jean de la Bruyère, in Life and Death

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

Garth Brooks, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

I don't feel good.

Luther Burbank, (dying words), in Life and Death

Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Unknown, (sometimes, almost certainly incorrectly, attributed to the Buddha), in Life and Death

Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Life and Death and Men and Women

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