No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaTo live outside the law, you must be honest.
Bob DylanOur nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise PascalEven today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.
Pope FrancisAll theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMan alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel JohnsonDeath wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.
Billy GrahamWe all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.
Mr. TOld age is just a record of one’s whole life.
Muhammad AliHe would make a lovely corpse.
Charles DickensThe compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMy whole life is a theater piece.
Lady GagaLife without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil GibranI have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.
Julius CaesarLife is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar WildeThe art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
EpicurusThe slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand RussellLife is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles DickensMy father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
Christopher HitchensThe chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Colin PowellLife is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
Bill GatesSecurity is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen KellerIf my life was a movie, no one would believe it.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerArt’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
Frank OceanCourage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia EarhartIn college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.
Stephen CurryI intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?
Terry PratchettActing is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
Denzel WashingtonNever throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore RooseveltI’ve lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.
Terry PratchettThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HippocratesLife in abundance comes only through great love.
Elbert HubbardThere is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
Henry David ThoreauThe truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.
Angelina JolieA squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
Mark ZuckerbergThere’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Angelina JolieIt seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
John C. MaxwellA life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard ShawMadame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest HemingwayI hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
Queen Elizabeth IIRacism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
Billy GrahamI have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
Taylor SwiftApart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
Nelson MandelaTo be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?
George LucasI am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody AllenThe death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan PoeTime stays, we go.
H. L. MenckenThat it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily DickinsonTo not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
Charles BukowskiSatisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur SchopenhauerI’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.
Dwayne JohnsonWithout football, my life is worth nothing.
Cristiano RonaldoYou can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
Bob DylanAs far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.
Terry PratchettLife every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William ShakespeareLife is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.
Woody AllenI were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William ShakespeareThe paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonYour life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
Wayne Dyer