Quotes about life and death
656 quotes from 337 people
It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Salman Rushdieborn 1947Address at Columbia University (1991)
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928), First paragraph
Bob Dylanborn 1941Bringing It All Back Home (1965)A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Cynic’s Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil’s Dictionary (1911).
Jack London1876–1916The Bulletin, San Francisco (2 December 1916), part 2, p. 1, ten days after his deathOften credited to Ian FlemingAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), The DevilSome people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882).On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Woody Allenborn 1935Without Feathers (1975), “The Early Essays”.
Christopher Morley1890–1957Thunder on the Left (1925), ch. 14
