Life and Death

The difficulty in life is the choice.

George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, act IV, 1900, in Life and Death

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Ogden Nash, in Life and Death

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Ogden Nash, Versus, in Life and Death

Plato was a bore.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

Garth Brooks, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Jean de la Bruyère, in Life and Death

Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Unknown, (sometimes, almost certainly incorrectly, attributed to the Buddha), in Life and Death

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett, in Life and Death

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

Charles Bukowski, in Life and Death

I don't feel good.

Luther Burbank, (dying words), in Life and Death

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles F. Kettering, in Life and Death

Life is short. Live it up.

Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.

Doug Larson, in Life and Death

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

Doug Larson, in Life and Death

Life is ours to be spent, not saved.

D. H. Lawrence, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death