Life Death Time Quotes

#1. I'm interested in characters who should know better, who know they should give up, move on, accept life as it is, with all its constraints - life, death, time - but don't.

Alice McDermott

#2. Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.

Dogen

#3. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.

Jonathan Tropper

#4. If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn't come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some of you do it on Sunday.

Bill Wilson

#5. Eternity, sacred time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. all the things we think are important really aren't, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: loneliness and longing, desire and death.

Amos Oz

#7. Live because you're dying. Tomorrow is no more guaranteed than the next hour. No minute is minuscule; every second is a new breath that fills the lungs with life.

Bron Dayvid

#8. Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time
life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

Holly Lisle

#9. Who said, 'All Time's delight
Hath she for narrow bed;
Life's troubled bubble broken'?
That's what I said.

Walter De La Mare

#10. It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised.

Dan Groat

#11. It feels like I'm stuck in one spot. It's been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you're moving on without me. And I - I'm not ready to be alone.

Brent Jones

#12. A bit of mist and light suffice for life to overpower nothingness. A bit of hope and time suffice for you to cross the mountain trails of myth; you were spared the fate of your ancestors. So borrow the wisdom of the anemones and say: Nothingness does not concern me, even if death besieges me.

Mahmoud Darwish

#13. Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

Veronica Roth

#14. Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

Fanny Kemble

#15. Getting fired from work is not a death sentence

Sunday Adelaja

#16. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Sylvia Plath

#17. Parting
One is strong, a child now grown
The other weak, a parent aged
-
The strong once feeble
The weak once mighty
-
Time, the infinity
has marked them ...

Muse

#18. I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

Madonna Ciccone

#19. This isn't the first time I've faced death, and I don't intend for it to be the last," I said, repeating the same words he'd told me before fighting in that fateful duel. "I've chosen to live a dangerous life, but it's who I am, and that wouldn't change even if we'd never met.

Jeaniene Frost

#20. Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.

Sandy Fussell

#21. In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.

Sinclair Lewis

#22. This one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing

Michael Chabon

#23. The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.

Peter Garrett

#24. If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No surprises, no detours. Just a thick tapestry of days and nights that at the end of his time on earth, he could roll up and proudly claim as his own.

Shilpa Agarwal

#25. There is an end to every journey.
Even life will come to an end one moment in time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.

Oswald Chambers

#27. I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.

Deborah Curtis

#28. I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.
Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life ...

Sanhita Baruah

#29. Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

#30. He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

Graham Greene

#31. As the days dwindled towards the end of the week I knew only one thing: I couldn't return to our old life.

Haroon had taken Honour and Al with him,

Ruth Ahmed

#32. Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Eric Berne

#33. Music links us humans, heart to heart ... Across time and space, and life and death.

Nancy Werlin

#34. Life is a matter of choice, while death is a matter of time.

Harold Araneta

#35. I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

Anthony Hopkins

#36. Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.

Fay Weldon

#37. For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

Virginia Woolf

#38. He'd learned something. Life was booby-trapped and there was no easy passage through. You had to jump from colour to colour, from happiness to happiness. And all those possible explosions in between. It could be all over any time.

Rupert Thomson

#39. There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.

Robert Cormier

#40. But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,
And Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.

William Shakespeare

#41. For the first time, she felt proud to lay claim to her gender. Perhaps men had life easier. But they would never know this. They would never walk the shadow lands of pain and death to be part of the miracle of life.

Kathleen Baldwin

#42. Now I know that here is something higher than heaven and deeper than ocean and stranger than life and death and time. I know now what I did not know before.

Kahlil Gibran

#43. I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.

Walter Mosley

#44. Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we're not so different that way.

Cassandra Clare

#45. When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

Banana Yoshimoto

#46. We labor to preserve the life of the body, but ultimately life and death are out of our hands. If the patient lives awhile longer, a certain kind of good will result. If God ordains that this is the time to die, another kind of good will result.

Michael D. O'Brien

#47. The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

Sarah Ash

#48. They say time heals all, But time is our only enemy; breathe deep and find strength to smile tonight, for the morning may never come

Michael Biondi

#49. Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done ... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#50. When the leaves stop falling wasn't her time to die, it was your time to live.

Kelly Moran

#51. What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.

Saint Basil

#52. Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once.

Michael R. French

#53. She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he knew it would be more than friendship. He was too young to name that feeling then. But love...above all relationships knows no age.

Viraj J. Mahajan

#54. Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

Frederick Lenz

#55. Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Sol Luckman

#56. You don't have forever. You have 24 hours each day to live by your values. People remember you only for what was most important in your life.

J.R. Rim

#57. 233Life is for the living and the dead, she said in a smile,

And flashed me a bit of pale thigh in the summer time

Derek Keck

#58. Every time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing that there's life after death.

Anonymous

#59. The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.

Arthur Adamov

#60. We experience what life and death really are when we love, for in love we go out of ourselves, become capable of happiness and at the same time can be hurt.

Jurgen Moltmann

#61. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Chuck Palahniuk

#62. Life is a cycle, a great wheel that turns throughout time: we are born, we live, we die, and (if we are lucky) we are reborn

Robyn Bachar

#63. In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?

Morrissey

#64. Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

Lois Lowry

#65. He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.

Sharon Sant

#66. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

James Boswell

#67. Life and death are two banks of the same river. Time is the boat on which we travel from one to the other, over and over.

Vinita Kinra

#68. I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#69. There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Theodore Roosevelt

#70. The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.

Kevin Williamson

#71. Dogen Zenj rightly said that, 'Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken, take heed and not squander life'.

Reiju Gensho

#72. I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.

Lloyd Alexander

#73. The writer:
a spy sent into life by the forces of death. His main objective is to get the information across the border, back into death. Then he can be given a mythic personality: 'he spent time among us, betrayed us, and took the material across the border.

Paul Bowles

#74. It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

Alexander McQueen

#75. He told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place.

Jonas Jonasson

#76. For the first time Saya understood how people can grow accustomed to war. Intensified by the stark contrast between life and death, fleeting moments of joy such as these could make one almost mad with happiness.

Noriko Ogiwara

#77. Life can end any time, any day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#78. ..the irreversibility of things is a kind of death at the heart of life and threatens constantly to steer us into time past- the home of
nostalgia, guilt, regret and remorse, the great spoilers of happiness.

Luc Ferry

#79. When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the depths of any tumultuous sea of darkness, sin, sorrow, death, or despair we may find ourselves in and brings us into the light and life and love of eternity.

John H. Groberg

#80. The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.

Slade Combs

#81. I'll be dead after I die, and I was dead before I was born. Life is a break from death. You can't be dead all the time.

Hallgrimur Helgason

#82. For each person I lost I found a new layer of grief to cover myself with, and each time I tried to bring something of their essence into my own being - be it unconditional love, kindness and piety.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#83. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. You can bet I'm going to make this day count! Will you?

Steve Maraboli

#84. In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.

Frederick Lenz

#85. When I first accepted my own death, the world was intantly changed. It was a completely new sensation. It took something like this to finally open my eyes. Before, I had simply shut myself off so that I could not see, could not hear. What had I been doing all this time?

Mohiro Kitoh

#86. Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.

Garth Nix

#87. We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

Robyn Schneider

#88. It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Simone De Beauvoir

#89. Thinking, Garraty thought. That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone.

Stephen King

#90. I'm looking for the exit."
"The Last Exit to Brooklyn, will it be?"
"Er, no! Just the way out."
From "One man in his time

Anthony J. Saunders

#91. Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake of my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh, Lord! Grant me a hundred births inIndia. But grant me this, too, that each time I may give up my life in the service of the Motherland.

Ram Prasad Bismil

#92. I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

Hans Kung

#93. Throughout our culture we have been led to the idea that we accept death as the end of life on earth ... Time bound as we are and goal oriented to achievements in our lifetime, we find it strange to anticipate heaven.

Billy Graham

#94. I ain't never saw a hearse with a luggage rack." (Quote by George Strait, country singer, and appearing at the end of Bob Mitchell's memoir, Time for a Heart-to-Heart: Reflections on Life in the Face of Death.

George Strait

#95. Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

Marcus Aurelius

#96. I'll be around my whole life. That's a long time to me.

Jodi Meadows

#97. Life is not without pain, but life concerns itself with how we handle that pain, or joy, or confusion or triumph. Life is more than time passing before death, it is the sum and total of all we make of it.

Michael A. Stackpole

#98. Every man at time of Death,
Would fain set forth some saying that may live
After his death and better humankind;
For death gives life's last word a power to live,
And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#99. I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying 'This, too, shall pass.' For a time, we do not even want it to pass. We hold on to grief, fearing that its lifting will be the final betrayal.

Ahdaf Soueif

#100. It was a wonderful time to be alive, or even dead.

Billy Collins