Life and Death

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Jean Paul Richter, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Paul Rudnick, in Life and Death and Science and Religion

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

Carl Sandburg, in Life and Death

Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Santayana, in Life and Death

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Alfred Adler, in Life and Death

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

Kehlog Albran, in Life and Death

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by living forever.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osler, in Life and Death

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

M. Scott Peck, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Plato, in Life and Death

Heed not my earthly lot, for it hath little of earth in it.

Edgar Allan Poe, in Life and Death

We come and go just like ripples in a stream.

John V. Politis, in Life and Death

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

I've never been this old in my entire life.

Rev. J. D. O'Neal, (sermon: "Redeeming the Time"), in Life and Death