Quotes on Life And Death

Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

I believe every person has a guardian spirit or angel. They assist us in the transition between life and death and they also help us pick our parents before we are born.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.

Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.