Quotations & Sayings

Life & Death (Quotations & Sayings)

• All of the animals, excepting man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
  – Samuel Butler

 

• Death levels all things.
  – Claudian

 

• The answer to the great question of … LIFE, the Universe and Everything … Forty Two.
  – Douglas Adams
  From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979

 

• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
  – Isaac Asimov

 

• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
  – Rabindranath Tagore

 

• Death is a punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favour.
  – Seneca

 

• The fear of death is worst than death.
  – Robert Burton

 

• Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
  – Bertolt Brecht

 

• We’re born princes and the civilizing process turns us into frogs.
  -Eric Berne

 

• The worst friend and enemy is but Death.
  – Rupert Brooke

 

• LIfe is absurd.
  – Albert Camus

 

• ”In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.”
  – Sid Caesar

 

• Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
  – Maurice Chevalier

 

• It is perhaps better to make a mistake of facing life than to make the mistake of running away from life.
  – Havelock Ellis

 

• Life proceeds at an uneven pace, in jerks and spurts. like growing plants and children.
  – Martin Flavin

 

• Be not afraid of life.  Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
  – William James

 

• The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it.
  – Guy de Maupassant

 

• Life is a bowl of cherries, some are sweet, some are bitter, some are fresh, some are rotting. You have to choose wisely.
  – Jean Morton

 

• The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
  – Theodore Roosevelt

 

• Live with love in your heart and always remember to count your blessings.
  – Brooke Shields

 

• Life well spent is long.
  – Leonardo Da Vinci

 

• I advise you to go living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
  – Voltaire

 

• Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
  -Woodrow Wilson (US President)

 

• You live and learn, then die and forget it all.
  – Noel Coward