Life Quotes - Page 6

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

G.K. Chesterton

After the game the king and pawn go into the same box.

Italian proverb

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from and to and why.

And how am I to face the odds of man's bedevilment and God's? I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there.

Clay lies still but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep Up lad when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.

Don't do things to not die do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.

Bernie S. Siegel

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.

Alexander Smith

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught Hell for.

Give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with food convenient for me.

Bible

I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

F. McKinney Hubbard

I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If there is another world he lives in bliss If there is none he made the best of this.

If way to the Better there be it exacts a full look at the Worst.

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today then what do you need tomorrow for?

Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav

In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening only with his legs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life but to prevent life from escaping you.

Life is a handful of short stories pretending to be a novel.

Anonymous

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Tennessee Williams

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I don't want to put my life in the hands of any doctor who believes in reincarnation. Give me a good old-fashioned American doc who'll make sure you live to pay that bill.

The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead

Life doesn't imitate art it imitates bad television.

When fate's got it in for you there's no limit to what you may have to put up with.

Georgette Heyer

I do not believe in an afterlife although I am bringing a change of underwear.

He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."

Anonymous

Being of sound mind I spent every cent I ever had.

Anonymous

If life was fair Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

The best way to get praise is to die.

Italian proverb

No matter how rich you become how famous or powerful when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

If you don't go to people's funerals they won't come to yours.

Anonymous

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

Margaret Miller

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.

Malcolm Muggeridge

If your time hasn't come not even a doctor can kill you.

M. A. Perlstein

I know a man who gave up smoking drinking sex and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.

Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

Laurence Ferlinghetti

If anything happens to me tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way they'll have to reevaluate me.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Garrison Keillor

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying.

For my family to go on living the way they are living now I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally.

Anonymous

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential. All I can say is: When I go they go!

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Harold Macmillan

I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.

The other night while lying on a couch I reviewed the high point of my life and fell asleep!

Anonymous

My mother always said that every time you do a good deed here on Earth you're storing up a treasure in heaven. Which means Mother Teresa's probably got some beachfront property up there and I'm up to a box of Milk Duds and a Pez dispenser.

Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination try to visualize a world without death.

Charlotte Gilman

Ninety percent of living is just showing up.

Everybody's gotta die sometime. That's life.

Planned obsolescence isn't a new idea - God always used it with people.

I want to die like my grandfather died . . . peacefully in his sleep. Not like the other three people screaming in the car.

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