68 Life And Death Quotes

Life and death are two eternal forces that have fascinated humanity since the beginning of time. They are the cornerstones of our existence, framing our experiences and shaping our perspectives. Throughout history, philosophers, writers, and thinkers have pondered these profound themes, offering insights that range from comforting to challenging. In this compilation, we have curated the top 68 quotes that encapsulate the essence of life and death. These quotes reflect the diverse viewpoints and deep reflections of those who have tried to understand the mysteries that surround us every day.

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

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

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

6. “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.” - Alice Sebold

7. “I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die.” - Leanna Renee Hieber

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. “When clouds will become heavier than the land in us led our entire life by the steps of our Destiny, we will understand that not their moments’ rain has darkened the sun of our life, but the failure to be ourselves.” - Sorin Cerin

11. “Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law” - David Clement-Davies

12. “The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.” - Ted Dekker

13. “There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.” - George Santayana

14. “Kaže da se svijet dijeli na ljude koji zamišljaju svoj sprovod i one koji ga ne zamišljaju, te da pametni i umjetnički nastrojeni ljudi spadaju u prvu kategoriju.” - Gayle Forman

15. “Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.” - Suzanne Collins

16. “You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We’re all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic’s just a little different from yours, that’s all.” - Charlaine Harris

17. “If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion.” - Maryrose Wood

18. “Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.''- 'Fine! That’s beautiful. But I wasn’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so let’s drink up and forget it. That’s more my idea.” - Eugene O'Neill

19. “Personally I don’t endorse the notion of mortality. It’s fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we’re not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule?" - Kinsey Millhone” - Sue Grafton

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

21. “Life may suck but death is worse.” - Alane Wilson

22. “The true terror Jonah thought the true mystery of life was not that we are all going to die but that we were all born that we were all once little babies like this unknowing and slowly reeling in the world gathering it loop by loop like a ball of string. The true terror was that we once didn't exist and then through no fault of our own we had to.” - Dan Chaon

23. “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

24. “I've been to weddings and I've been to wakes in either setting Love takes no breaks.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

25. “If you have a warm and caring heart, you're loved ones will ensure you never depart. For long after you've turned that final page you'll still be right there on center stage.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

26. “Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is like driving through life without a good set of brakes.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

27. “I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

28. “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

29. “It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.” - Esi Edugyan

30. “Да, человек смертен, но это было бы еще полбеды. Плохо то, что он иногда внезапно смертен, вот в чем фокус! И вообще не может сказать, что он будет делать в сегодняшний вечер.” - Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

31. “If I had a choice, I wouldn’t be here… I wouldn’t be anywhere.” - Faraaz Kazi

32. “Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.” - Mario Puzo

33. “I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.” - Anne Frank

34. “Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…” - Aberjhani

35. “In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.” - Cameron Conaway

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

37. “There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.” - Cormac McCarthy

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

39. “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

40. “Life is beautifully tragic. Giving it up isn't the hard part; it's the living part that everyone struggles with.” - Allison Blanchard

41. “I closed my eyes. I used to think I was protecting the world, too. But it wasn't that simple. Nothing was. Who were we to decide that anyone or anything didn't deserve the spark of life they had been given?” - Kiersten White

42. “i am n0t aFraiD oV deaTh , I juX dun waNna Be thEre weN iT haPpeNZ !” - Babri Memon

43. “A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” - Chief Crowfoot

44. “This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.” - T.S. Eliot

45. “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

46. “This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was beautiful. Even the dirty little pads of her feet were beautiful. I cursed myself then. For once, heaven had sent me Beauty in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down. How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death?” - Roman Payne

47. “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

48. “You are a speck. This whole life that seems so huge to us? asall of human enterprise even? Fuck us. We are so tiny," as he said "so tiny" he bent over until his forehead was nearly touching the tabletop, as if he was homing in on the speck that was them. "I can't stand to think we only add up to a blip. I need to think we're more than that." "Deal with it." he looked around as if someone had called his name.” - Carol Anshaw

49. “When death tells a story yo really have to listen” - Markus Zusak

50. “In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.” - Dannion Brinkley

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

52. “Though his health and family had been broken in the process, he'd found his purpose in life — to share the ancient key discovered anew in the garden: if we feed the earth, it will feed us.I see that is the secret, too, to living. Though the earth demands its sacrifices, spring will always return” - Melissa Coleman

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

54. “This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.” - Justin Cronin

55. “What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?” - Jonathan Safran Foer

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

57. “There's nothing like love or incumbent death to make you realize how many things you still want to do.” - Monica La Porta

58. “People don’t always value life, even their own, as much as they should.” - Alex Potvin

59. “My chest tightens to the point I fear my heart will suffocate from the pressure of it. Society's standards are the total opposite from how I was raised. The boy who I thought to be so strikingly handsome has less than a year of his life to live, my new friend only a few more months beyond that. Yet they are living these uneventful lives in which they don't think there is a reason for anything. Will I ever see my mother again, or is this how I will be forced to live the rest of my life, as well?” - Jen Naumann

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

61. “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

62. “One of the best parts of being a Guardian is that we get a chance to grow and change. We get to exist in both worlds. We know the secret of life and have the knowledge of death” - Mackie Burt

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

64. “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

65. “I was a puzzle. An enigma. I was nothing. And then I was again.” - Daniel Xiao Wang

66. “The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators.” - Bryant McGill

67. “Ali život se nikome, razumete li me, nikome na ovom svetu ne duguje. Ni majci, ni deci, ni prijateljima, ni jedom idealu! Život je moje neprikosnoveno pravo! U šta i kako ću ga satreti, moja je lična stvar.” - Dobrica Ćosić

68. “I'll be around my whole life. That's a long time to me.” - Jodi Meadows