Quotes about life and death
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I think it’s important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
Joseph Campbell1904–1987The Power of Myth (1988)You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus1913–1960“Intuitions” (October 1932), published in Youthful Writings (1976)It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.
- Albert Camus1913–1960The Stranger (1942)
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
Albert Camus1913–1960An Absurd ReasoningThe realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
Albert Camus1913–1960Review of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in the newspaper Alger Républicain (20 October 1938), p. 5People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.
George Carlin1937–2008When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Richter (1827).Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881“Goethe’s Helena”, Foreign Review (1828)Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Preface- Lewis Carroll1832–1898Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Ever drifting down the stream—
Lingering in the golden gleam—
Life, what is it but a dream?For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Addressing a Bible class in Plains, Georgia (March 1976), as quoted in Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser (11 April 1976)
