Matters Of Life And Death Quotes

#1. We are God's partners in matters of life and death.

Barack Obama

#2. Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.

Peter Hoeg

#3. A perfect example, in matters of life and death, of love and passion, of choice or destiny; options decrease to a singular course.

Bruce Crown

#4. The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.

Mary-Lou Weisman

#5. When a volcano erupts, people get surprised, but it is a volcano! There is no 'place' for the surprise! The biggest problem with people is that they are not serious about the matters of life and death! Be serious or alternatively lose your existence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

Karlie Kloss

#7. One did not depend on marines for good table manners. One depended on them to have the right instincts when it came to matters of life and death.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#8. Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Raymond Carver

#9. The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

Rose Schneiderman

#10. Death comes to all. But life comes first. Cherish it. Death is the destination. But the journey, that is life. That is what matters.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]

Edward Abbey

#12. Casy said solemnly, This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters. An' now his dead, an' that don't matter ...

John Steinbeck

#13. Ever felt like you are more than flesh and bones and blood that decay back into cosmic dirt? You are. Your existence did not begin with your birth and it will not end with your death. Your soul lived before and will live on and on and on ... so what you do now matters later. Choose wisely.

Toni Sorenson

#14. The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

Shepard Smith

#15. Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.

Happy Rockefeller

#16. Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.

Igor Sikorsky

#17. When I contemplate life as well as death, I am discovering what really matters to me now.

Lisa J. Shultz

#18. In the end, the only thing that really matters is how we treated all living things.

Ka Chinery

#19. I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

Patrick Macnee

#20. In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

Barbara Olson

#21. A person's life isn't orderly ... it runs about all over the place, in and out through time. The present's hardly there; the future doesn't exist. Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.

William Trevor

#22. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

Edgar Allan Poe

#23. The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.

Leo Babauta

#24. Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#25. Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.

Georgia Harkness

#26. Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.)

Candy Lightner

#27. Did the dead still want things? Or was death simply a letting go of all that is held so tightly in life - an understanding of the temporal and shallow nature of the human matters of possession, greed, desire, justice?

Lisa Wingate

#28. Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations.
When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.

Toba Beta

#29. Behold how the stream flows to the sea, and the flowing waters will return no more; thus, my brother, do your days pass away, and you approach to death; pleasures pass, amusements pass, pomp, praises, acclamations pass; and what remains?

Alfonso Maria De Liguori

#30. Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

Mario Puzo

#31. 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

#32. This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don' know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters.

John Steinbeck

#33. Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#34. Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#35. I am not knocking advances that provide a healthier life and alleviate suffering or unnecessary premature death. I am advocating inclusion of education on end-of-life matters and the promotion of understanding, conversation, and planning.

Lisa J. Shultz