Life Is Better Than Death Quotes

#1. Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walker

#2. Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward's talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to bend.

Geraldine Brooks

#3. They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.

Idries Shah

#4. It is always better
to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.
For every one of us, living in this world
means waiting for our end. Let whoever can
win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,
that will be his best and only bulwark.

Seamus Heaney

#5. Who said death is dead? He's fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place.

Anthony Liccione

#6. The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them.

Charles Bukowski

#7. 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

#8. I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well.

Nina Sankovitch

#9. A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.

Steven J. Carroll

#10. I have got only one life to live and one death to die; there better be a good cause to live and a good cause to die.

Surendra Nath

#11. You did not fear death. You stepped in its path, but without really desiring it: how can one desire something one doesn't know? You didn't deny life but affirmed your taste for the unknown, betting that if something existed on the other side, it would be better than here.

Edouard Leve

#12. But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be.

Jandy Nelson

#13. Science gives man ever greater powers but less significance. It gives him better tools with less purposes. It is silent on origins, values, and ultimate aims. It gives life and history no meaning or worth that is not canceled by time and death.

Will Durant

#14. It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

James Fenimore Cooper

#15. Death almost always rearranges life, sometimes for the worse, many times for the better,

Tiffany Baker

#16. We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Naomi Watts

#17. Who knows until we experience it? I think that heaven and reincarnation are both ways of making us feel better about what happens to people's souls after death. I hope at least one of them is true.

Cat Patrick

#18. All those who leave immigrate to better lives, but I wanted to better my death. Maybe it is the ending that matter, not the life, I thought. Maybe we, like elephants, walk towards our chosen burials.

Rawi Hage

#19. Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

Jane Austen

#20. You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

Ian McKellen

#21. Those who've known great sadness have a better appreciation for happiness. Those who've seen death know the value of life.

Suzanne Supplee

#22. Death grip. Life grip was really a better way to describe it.

Mary Connealy

#23. Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this period is reckoned a portion of life. - Pg. 82

Robert Harris

#24. Rorschach did not seek death; he didn't commit suicide by Manhattan. But he understood what the others did not. "It is better to sacrifice life than to forfeit morality. It is not necessary to live, but it is necessary that, so long as we live, we do so honourably."18

William Irwin

#25. One life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#26. One day with knowing the reality is better than hundred years without knowing the reality.

Muditha Champika

#27. By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

Irvine Welsh

#28. An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
[Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

Tacitus

#29. Death with honor is better than life ... life with dishonor.

David Henry Hwang

#30. Life is better life past fearing death,
Than that which lives to fear.

William Shakespeare

#31. Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

Swami Vivekananda

#32. The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

Euripides

#33. Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Aeschylus

#34. In my carpet bag are the mushrooms that I gathered in the woods. With two fingers I pick up a piece and look at it. Then I take a bite and wait for my body to react. Now I'm in a better mood. In a short time I'll be dead. Or alive. I'm not always sure that there's any difference.

Peter H. Fogtdal

#35. Today we have different idols. . . We have trusted in human reason, science, and technology to solve our problems and progress toward a better world and a prosperous life. Yet idolatry brings death.

Craig G. Bartholomew

#36. Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone.

Homer

#37. The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

Stanley Kubrick

#38. It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

Euripides

#39. This is your work now, Gian had thought, strewing death about him, but only live and some day, home again, turn your hand to something better, and in Sea-john life will be good, and safe, and full of love.

Kai Ashante Wilson

#40. No,' Nico said. 'Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that's the trick.' As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could've been talking about himself. He decided not to bring that up.

Rick Riordan

#41. Think what a contribution selfish people of great talent could have made if their commitments had been made to Jesus Christ instead of to themselves! We will do better in every aspect of our lives if we commit to a God in whose life we see miracles, power over disease and death ...

Vaughn J. Featherstone

#42. Then, when I thought it couldn't get any better, I see it. And I knew, only then, that I'm truly in Heaven.

Mandi Lynn

#43. And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

Hayley Williams

#44. Fearlessness is better than a faint-heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#45. I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.

Hannah Moskowitz

#46. ROMEO: I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;
And but thou love me, let them find me here:
My life were better ended by their hate,
Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.

William Shakespeare

#47. The thing about living with a death sentence for so long is you tend to miss the moment life starts to get better because you're so ready for it to get much, much worse.

John Goode

#48. You see mock death in movies every day, but when it really happens, you're not used to it. Most things in life, you get better the more that you do them, but this is one of those things you don't really want to get any better at.

Joe Elliott

#49. It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#50. As we travel again between life and death,
Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers,
None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us ...

Jay Woodman

#51. Most of the contexts are life and death, by the way, and God is your only hope. Your ezer. If he is not there beside you ... you are dead. A better translation therefore of ezer would be "lifesaver." Kenegdo means alongside, or opposite to, a counterpart.

John Eldredge

#52. Life is a risk, who knows this better than me? Who knows more surely that babies die easily, that children fall ill from the least cause, that royal blood is fatally weak, that death walks behind my family like a faithful black hound?

Philippa Gregory

#53. Life maybe better after death, but don't count on it!

Robert B. Scott

#54. To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.

Lauren DeStefano

#55. You have tasted of death now," said the old man. "Is it good?"
"It is good," said Mossy. "It is better than life."
"No," said the old man: "it is only more life.

George MacDonald

#56. Example, compared with hunter-gatherers, citizens of modern industrialized states enjoy better medical care, lower risk of death by homicide, and a longer life span,

Jared Diamond

#57. I learned it was better to tiptoe through life and arrive at death's door safely.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#58. I've never feared death before. I've always been willing to die. Sometimes I even welcomed it, wishing for this all to be over and finally find peace in an endless sleep. But when I look at you, I see possibility, and I start to do what I know better than to do - I wonder

Emalynne Wilder

#59. I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.

Ninni Holmqvist

#60. Better to head off into the unknown than stay here, where death was most certain

James Rollins

#61. And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

Lynn Redgrave

#62. Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

Chris Pine

#63. A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.

Alan Bradley

#64. Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.

Aleksandra Layland

#65. Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.

Amy Vanderbilt

#66. Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

Horace Mann

#67. I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

Ellen Glasgow

#68. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Socrates

#69. Life was a road, and if departed from at a tangent, the longer for it. And a long road was a long life - a case where to travel was better than to arrive, the point of arrival being, after all, always the same: death.

Andrey Kurkov

#70. I believe that death should not be feared instead we should endure life and give our best even though life isn't always fair we shall always enjoy life the way it comes and if death is upon us its cause its time for us to go knowing that there is something better for us ...

Miguel Angel Puma

#71. No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#72. Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists ... but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.

Lafcadio Hearn

#73. If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie
not really dead but not really alive, either.

Cassandra Clare

#74. We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.

Rudolf Steiner

#75. 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

#76. After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

Annie Besant

#77. Don't you think it's better to continue reading than to just close the book?

Rebecca McNutt

#78. 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

#79. Always choose life. A demeaned life is better than the best death.

Mo Yan

#80. Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

Blaise Pascal

#81. (What she perhaps didn't realize is that the embalming fluid pumped into the veins expands the body's erectile tissues, with the result that male anatomy lab cadavers may be markedly better endowed in death than they were in life.)

Mary Roach

#82. How tragic lives there are in this world! But there is a greater tragedy: People who have very hard lives often believe that they will have a better life after death! Losing hope in life and running after an absolute illusion is even a bigger tragedy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#83. Life is always better than death. Always. No exceptions.

Greer Macallister

#84. The more clearly we can see the walls of our life, the better. Even if it's only a psychological boundary, even if, deep down, we know that death will still enter without asking, it's comforting to pretend that we have everything under control.

Paulo Coelho

#85. Maybe I felt like I'd come so close to forever-death that I'd better step back and take a look at my life. Maybe I didn't like a lot of what I'd done with it so far.

Charlaine Harris

#86. Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Dan Savage

#87. Major changes in life are just the way the universe is aligning a better future for you.

Linda Alfiori

#88. Not being welcome is your greatest fear. It connects with your birth fear, your fear of not being welcome in this life, and your death fear, your fear of not being welcome in the life after this. It is the deep-seated fear that it would have been better if you had not lived.

Henri J.M. Nouwen