'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.
In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?
For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.
Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?.
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.