Quotes of Life And Death - somelinesforyou

“ Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. ”

- Lao tzu

“ Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ It is not length of life, but depth of life. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. ”

- James Dean

“ Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ”

- Norman Cousins

“ Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. ”

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“ Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don’t know how. ”

- Gloria Swanson

“ Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. ”

- Haruki Murakami

“ Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. ”

- Angela Carter

“ Death is peaceful, life is harder. ”

- Stephenie Meyer

“ It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot. ”

- Dean Smith

“ Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music, and death a note unsaid. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Death is not something you get over. It’s the rip that exposes life in a before and after chasm, and all you can do is try to exist as best you can in the after. ”

- Lily Graham

“ Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my task are done. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ Death ends a life, not a relationship. ”

- Mitch Albom

“ Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Life is eternal, and love is immortal, Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. ”

- Rossiter Worthington Raymond

“ Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live. ”

- Norman Cousins

“ Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. ”

- Unknown
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