Life and Death Quotes
Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.Life and Death
Allen, Fred A.
1894-1957 American Radio Comic
Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
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Book Of Common Prayer
Liturgy of the Anglican Church
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It s a palliative. The remedy is death.
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Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
1741-1794 French Writer Journalist Playwright
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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Frost, Robert
1875-1963 American Poet
Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
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Khayyam, Omar
1048-1131 Persian Astronomer Poet
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Lawrence, D. H.
1885-1930 British Author
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.
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Pasolini, Pier Paolo
1922-1975 Italian Filmmaker Author
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
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Thrale, Hester Piozzi
1741-1821 British Writer
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Young, Edward
1683-1765 British Poet Dramatist