Quotes about life and death
656 quotes from 337 people
Robert E. Howard1906–1936From a letter to Farnsworth Wright (c. Summer 1931)Don’t take life too seriously; you’ll never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 74- Elbert Hubbard1856–1915Attributed in Items of Interest, Vol. 33 (1911), p. 8
- Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 40
L. Ron Hubbard1911–1986A letter to his wife Polly (October 1938), quoted in Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987), p. 81.Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Fifth: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning, Chapter IVIn contextThe life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
David Hume1711–1776On Suicide- David Hume1711–1776An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
Washington Irving1783–1859The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820), “Westminster Abbey”There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
Kazuo Ishiguroborn 1954On growing up in England, having left Japan at age 5. Conversation with Lewis Burke Frumkes, The Writer, volume 114, number 5, May 2001, collected in Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro, p. 189Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
Stonewall Jackson1824–1863Last words (May 10, 1863); as quoted in “Stonewall Jackson’s Last Days” by Joe D. Haines, Jr. in America’s Civil War
