54 Life And Death Quotes

Life and death are two of the most profound aspects of human existence, sparking deep reflection and varied interpretations throughout history. From the words of ancient philosophers to modern thinkers, these topics have been explored in literature, art, and everyday musings. In this collection, we've gathered the top 54 quotes that encapsulate the essence of life and death, offering insight, comfort, and perhaps a fresh perspective. Whether you seek inspiration or solace, these timeless words are meant to resonate with the profound experiences that unite us all.

1. “Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.” - Charles Bukowski

2. “I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.” - Gore Vidal

3. “The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.” - Joan Baez

4. “Too weird to live, too rare to die!” - Hunter S. Thompson

5. “The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.” - Blaise Pascal

6. “All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.” - Walt Whitman

7. “If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot.” - Dean Smith

8. “You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.” - Aberjhani

9. “Ce matin, l'idée m'est venue pour la première fois que mon corps, ce fidèle compagnon, cet ami plus sûr, mieux connu de moi que mon âme, n'est qu'un monstre sournois qui finira par dévorer son maître.” - Marguerite Yourcenar

10. “Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?” - Kobo Abe

11. “There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.” - Victor Hugo

12. “It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.” - Virginia Woolf

13. “I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.” - Libba Bray

14. “Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.” - Christopher Pike

15. “Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it.” - John Steinbeck

16. “All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru” - Masashi Kishimoto

17. “If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I'll see you there."I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I'd always wanted. - Nikki” - Brodi Ashton

18. “After all, how often do we get a second chance?” - Jay Asher

19. “Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you’re alone.” - Stephen King

20. “On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.” - Henry David Thoreau

21. “Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when it'll be your last.” - Solange nicole

22. “Why was I standing on the street when the window feel out of the building? Why did the bus run over me? Because it was my turn in the barrel, that's why.” - Ellyn Bache

23. “The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.” - Saul Bellow

24. “Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?” - L.M. Montgomery

25. “For the very first time Andrew realized that life, real life, had no connection with the way people spent their days, whose lips they kissed, what medals were pinned on them, or the shoes they mended. Life, real life went on soundlessly...ultimately there was no difference between Queen Victoria and the most wretched beggar in London: both were complex machines made up of bone, organ, and tissue, whose fuel was the breath of God.” - Félix J. Palma

26. “I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.” - Haruki Murakami

27. “I'll never leave this Earth without a fight or at least pretend to for all of those in sight.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

28. “When you depart I'll blow you a Kiss take it to the Loved ones I already Miss.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

29. “We are bound to expireEven metal which is sturdiest,Rusts.Even oxygen, the breath of life,Soon transpires. 8/6/11 -Luis Medina” - luigi komrad

30. “The path i walk lights up in flames” - R. Karim

31. “To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.” - Teju Cole

32. “In the grueling light that passed for day...” - Cormac McCarthy

33. “Losing never come easy. First off, preserved the memories.” - Hlovate

34. “Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.” - Kurt Vonnegut

35. “Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.” - Marcus Aurelius

36. “Sometimes evil wins, nah, child. But it’s always fleeting. Just a temporary ripple in a sea of goodness, brought on by the carnal nature of greed ’n corruption. Sacrifice washes that ripple out in waves of love ’n light, and peace is found when justice is served, even for those who lose, ya hear?” - Rachael Wade

37. “O fim de uma viagem é apenas o começo de outra” - José Saramago

38. “It was then that I realized I wasn't afraid to lose my life; I was afraid to lose the life I could've lived.” - Amanda Nuri

39. “I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness...I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then coal that will, in millions of years, be mined by humans of the future, and how they would heat their homes with her and then she would be smoke billowing out of a smokestack, coating the atmosphere. I still that think that, sometimes, maybe "the afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter...I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take her genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else there entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed...energy is never created and never destroyed. We cannot be born and cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations... Thomas Edison's last words were: It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.” - John Green

40. “We definitely don't exist just for the sake of welcoming death someday; I believe we live for the sake of living on." —Kazuto Kirigaya "Kirito" (Sword Art Online)” - Reki Kawahara

41. “Prisoner of Her Own Captivity” - Brandalynn Davis

42. “He wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that was left to him to ease his passage into whatever lay beyond.” - Andrew Levkoff

43. “Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.” - Leo Tolstoy

44. “All have a shadow over the earth but no shadow under earth or in grave.” - Abidul Huda Chowdhury Suzon

45. “All paths lead to death, our premature sacrifice for future spawn(from Elixir)” - Bryan Murphy

46. “We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped.” - Heather Gudenkauf

47. “I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.” - John Green

48. “Careful with your life.” - satree

49. “He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.” - Boris Pasternak

50. “Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?” - Susan Abulhawa

51. “Erlendur didn’t believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn’t believe in God although he’d often read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this world would affect whether he went to heaven or hell. He felt that life itself offered a mixture of the two.Then sometimes he experienced this incomprehensible and supernatural de´ja` -vu, experienced time and place as if he’d seen it all before, as if he stepped outside himself, became an onlooker to his own life. There was no way he could explain what it was thathappened or why his mind played tricks on him like this.” - Arnaldur Indriðason

52. “In the end, age in numbers is no more than an empty bag. The only way to truly tell a person's years is by examing the contents they have filled it with.” - Thurman P. Banks Jr.

53. “ A day without family is like a year without rain ” - Susan

54. “The place of horror turns out to be no more than a green scoop, sometimes shadowed, sometimes shining with the bilberries and grass within it, as if a mouth had opened from which streamed a beam of light. So my uncle Robert's death, which had looked from a distance to be an all-consuming tragedy was, close-up, the story of a man finding release from his pain and how his brother had showed such defiant love. The past was a grave, a trap - and yet, also neither of these. Just light, coming and going.At the wolf pit you imagine you will stare into a hole littered with bones, but what draws you to that place is not what you take from it. The wolf pit seems a delicate illusion. You walk towards it; there is nothing, just a curve of the moor; then it is a soft green light, and then it is nothing again.” - Will Cohu