Irony Of Life And Death Quotes

#1. It's really nice when life comes full circle and you get to work with people four years down the line.

Gillian Jacobs

#2. [ Unplugged ] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.

Eric Clapton

#3. The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

Ernest Becker

#4. Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

Patti Smith

#5. Once you hold the hand of Death, the only thing in life that can scare you is a sense of humor.

Lionel Suggs

#6. I paid, got up, walked
to the door, opened
it.
I heard the man
say, "that guy's
nuts."
out on the street I
walked north
feeling
curiously
honored.

Charles Bukowski

#7. The bonds you make with those records when you're 14, 15 and 16, they'll never be broken, and nothing will ever be as strong as that.

Rivers Cuomo

#8. I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub

Charles Bukowski

#9. In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

Douglas Adams

#10. One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

Chris Argyris

#11. I'm sucking on a cancer stick trying to think of something inspiring to say to help someone have a better life. That's "Irony".

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#12. Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!

Adhish Mazumder

#13. You know? Ain't it ironic how we live our entire lives without the luxury of time, only to spend an eternity in death.

Jason Medina

#14. I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me or to humor me or to keep the peace.

Katherine Mansfield

#15. No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

Don DeLillo

#16. Don't speak to them in the language of the dead, Mr. Marinville.

Stephen King

#17. It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Lenny Bruce

#18. With Halloween coming this weekend, they say not one person in the country is planning to dress up as Governor Sarah Palin. You know why? ... The costume costs $150,000.

Jay Leno

#19. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

Muriel Barbery

#20. It just shows how one half of the world doesn't know how three quarts live.

P.G. Wodehouse

#21. Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable - and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

David Brin

#22. The irony of man's fate reflected in his image: that all men, from beggar to emperor, from harlot to queen, from ragged clerk to Pope, must come to this. No matter what their poverty or power in life, all is vanity, equalized by death.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#23. Lord, You are the only lens that can correct the vision of a life. And if I don't hunger daily for the bread of Your Word, I'll develop sight deficiency. Make me Word reflective - that I may have the right perspective.

Ann Voskamp

#24. But you are life and you are the veil.

Kahlil Gibran

#25. I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party.

Charles Bukowski

#26. I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death.
(Page 94)

Neena Verma

#27. Every person has their own unique circumstances to overcome, but every single person has the opportunity to achieve anything - and change everything.

Rhonda Byrne

#28. And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

V.S. Naipaul

#29. Time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a monstropolous old thing while Janie talked.

Zora Neale Hurston

#30. People are not always what they say there are - or even what they think they are. There is but One who sees us objectively, and heave reason to be thankful that He is called the Merciful, the Compassionate, the Forgiving

Charles Le Gai Eaton