Quotes and Sayings About Life And Death
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
-- A. A. Gill -
Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.
-- Agatha Christie -
I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.
-- Alain Robert -
A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?
-- Alan Moore -
If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.
-- Albert Brooks -
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'
-- Albert Camus -
Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.
-- Albert Camus -
There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.
-- Albert Einstein -
Only when all conceptions of space and time, life and death, are exploded, when the grip of the past and fear of the future become merely conditions of one's past, only then can one live in the present fully.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Life and death and rebirth live within me.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
-- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu -
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
-- Alexander Brome -
I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.
-- Alfred Bester -
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.
-- Allan Bloom -
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
-- Andre Malraux -
The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.
-- Andrei Zhdanov -
The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
-- Angela Carter -
I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.
-- Ann Bridge -
I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.
-- Ansel Adams -
I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.
-- Barbara Kruger -
It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.
-- Barbara Lee -
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
-- Barbara Olson -
My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
-- Bear Grylls -
If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.
-- Benjamin Rush -
If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.
-- Bill Parcells -
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
-- Bill Shankly -
Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
-- Blaise Pascal -
My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
-- Bobby Fischer
