Top 100 Quotes About Between Life And Death
#1. The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the difference between life and death. In many ways, I liken their reactions to the way I felt while serving in Iraq.
Pete Hegseth
#2. Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
Frank Herbert
#3. She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start
Haruki Murakami
#4. Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.
Santosh Kalwar
#5. 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
#6. Experience has thought me that there is only one short step between Love and Hate, as there is between Life and Death.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#7. In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.
Michael Ashcroft
#8. Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation in the composition of air, the precise suitability of food, makes all the difference between health and sickness; between life and death.
Robert Stawell Ball
#9. I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
#10. 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
#12. The thin line between life and death is still under construction.
Santosh Kalwar
#13. Four inches
The difference between life and death for you tonight was four inches.
Tiffany Snow
#14. What had been a shared moment was private now, and always would be. Even if he were to tell the story, it would be a tale told and not the thing itself. The difference between those two was the division between life and death: a lived moment and one entombed.
Daniel Abraham
#15. 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
#16. Consider too, how deep the abyss between life and death; across this, my power can build a bridge, but it can never fill up the frightful chasm.
Johann Ludwig Tieck
#17. Women tread the threshold between life and death much closer than men.
Meg Jackson
#18. It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.
Emma Donoghue
#19. I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
V.E Schwab
#20. Love can make the difference between life and death.I've seen how powerful love can be.
Paul Pilkington
#21. ..there is a lot of gray between life and death. Life isn't worth living if you aren't with the ones you love.
Melissa West
#22. A certain song can mean the difference between life and death for someone who is depressed and suicidal. Music can inspire and give hope. It can show adulation and worship and praise love and people.
Katie Ashley
#23. When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.
Greg Iles
#24. Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.
Margaret M. Lock
#25. Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed
Sam Altman
#26. The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#27. We were
existing somewhere between life and death, with neither accepting us
fully.
Susan Abulhawa
#28. The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most.
Diane Setterfield
#29. The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
Erin Hunter
#30. Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
D.H. Lawrence
#31. The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor ... I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.
Jack Johnson
#32. In the realm between life and death, time, as we know it, does not exist.
Brunonia Barry
#33. Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.
Paul Stamets
#34. Everything could end at any moment. The difference between life and death was one breath, one second, one act. And that meant that life was worth everything, every minute of every day.
Gwenda Bond
#35. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along.
Paul Auster
#36. Practicing kindness and selflessness, you naturally align your life with the Integral Way. Aligning your life with the Integral Way, you begin to eliminate the illusory boundaries between people and societies, between darkness and light, between life and death.
Brian Browne Walker
#37. Often I Wish I Were
a potato.
Eyes opened
in all directions.
Unafraid
of the cold earth.
The difference
between life and death
for somebody.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
#38. Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#39. I think there is only one form of greatness for man. If a man can bridge the gap between life and death. I mean, if he can live on after he has died, then maybe he was a great man. To me the only success, the only greatness, is immortality.
James Dean
#40. Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#41. The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#42. You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.
Eckhart Tolle
#43. I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.
W.G. Sebald
#44. That love can make the difference between life and death.
Paul Pilkington
#45. Dead is dead. For whatever reason. And in choice between life and death, there is no other choice.
David Levithan
#46. I could almost believe that a love as passionate as theirs had been would enable them to reach across the abyss between life and death and join hands for some precious moments every night.
V.C. Andrews
#47. Jewish tradition holds that, given a choice between life and death, one should always choose life.
Miriam M. Brysk
#48. Since you have a choice between life and death, why not choose life and live.
Carolyn Wells
#49. There's always a thin line between life and death. I am somewhere in between, walking to my destination.
Aishah Madadiy
#50. She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man's land between life and death, sleeping and waking.
Angela Carter
#51. He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.
George R R Martin
#52. Love knows no difference between life and death
The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
#53. 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.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#54. Inferno is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by entities known as "shades" - bodiless souls trapped between life and death.
Dan Brown
#55. The American empire is hovering between life and death.
Mohsen Rezaee
#56. Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
Brennan Manning
#57. Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.
Mira Grant
#58. I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity
and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.
Erich Fromm
#59. Every human being is called to solidarity in a world battling between life and death
Ignacio Ellacuria
#60. The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
Dennis Prager
#61. You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?
Cokie Roberts
#62. There's a thin line between life and death. It's God's Grace that shows us how fragile we all are.
Timothy Pina
#63. [I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#64. Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.
Diogenes Laertius
#65. In a race between danger and indecision, the difference between life and death comes down to confidence. Faith in our abilities, certainty in ourselves and the trust we put in others.
Emily Thorne
#66. If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.
James Dean
#67. I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.
Jay Parini
#68. We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death.
Louis Malle
#69. ...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would have worn a snarl.
William Golding
#70. Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.
Marcel Schwob
#71. I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.
Alain Robert
#72. The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family ... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.
Pope John Paul II
#73. Hope is the thread between life and death,
As long as hope is alive we take breath.
Debasish Mridha
#74. We try and map boundaries, and to string fence - we try to set up a border between life and death, between man and nature, and complicity versus innocence. But the truth is, there is no complicity, there is no innocence; and there is no death, there is only life.
Rick Bass
#75. Am I Dead?"
Had she fallen to her doom and this was all an elaborate fantasy? Was this the place between life and death? Her eyes welled up with tears and she ran towards the man that wasn't there, wanting to cling to him, to find something to save her from this torture.
M. Keep
#76. There is no corelation between life and death, except that life is the biggest lie we believed, while death; is the most certain truth.
Husam Wafaei
#77. I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#78. I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
Alexander McQueen
#79. A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.
Jean De La Bruyere
#80. The tightrope of love swings back and forth, forever tied between the tree of anxiety and the tree of fear. Like life, it holds a constant reminder that death must be overcome ...
Goliarda Sapienza
#81. 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
#82. We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.
Johann Baptist Metz
#83. Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.
Saul Alinsky
#84. Our true reality is not a limited phenomenon, existing only between birth and death. It is eternal life that exists alone, self-existent and self-sufficient, the essence of all that is, was, and ever will be throughout the universe. That is what you really are.
Ilchi Lee
#85. 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
#86. We are all connected. The living to the nonliving, as the nonliving to the living. All things in all directions in all times. It is only in the physical dimension that we have limitations. (The membrane between us is thinner than you think.)
Garth Stein
#87. The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
Charles Lamb
#88. You're right, Manon. It is all still there. The times we spent together are immortal, imperishable, and life never stops. The death of our loved ones is merely a threshold between an ending and a new beginning.
Nina George
#89. At the beginning of our life is birth, during which we suffer, and at the end of our life is death, during which we also suffer. Between these two come aging and illness. No matter how wealthy you are or how physically fit you are, you have to suffer through these circumstances.
Dalai Lama XIV
#90. Our birthday is celebrated every year to commemorate the very first instant we came into the world, and a funeral is held to mark the day we leave it. But lately I've been wondering ... what can be said of all the moments in between our birth and our death? The moments when we are reborn ...
Taylor Swift
#92. It's taken me my whole life to understand that the only thing between birth and death is love, that love is life.
Larry Benjamin
#93. There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty.
Brian Hugh Warner
#94. I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively knew, I have to listen.
Brad Willis
#95. His dying mind conjured up one last, reassuring thought.
In the end, don't we all come from dust anyway? We come from dust... and we end as dust.
The oh-so-short passage in between is the bit we call 'life'.
Everything ends eventually.
Everything.
Alex Scarrow
#96. I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot of dramatics come into my aesthetic. And I'm an actor, so that adds more to the dramatic - I don't mean over-the-top. The main thing is never to be boring.
Bryan Batt
#97. Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.
Scott Sanders
#98. As a phenomenon, life has a beginning and ending, but life itself doesn't. So, which one is truly me - a phenomenon that lasts only between birth and death, or life itself that underlies all phenomena?
Ilchi Lee
#99. We should try to live a life of a human once before we die, because there is a difference between having a life and living a life.
M.H. Rakib
#100. Life and death aren't as different from each other as I thought they were. This isn't like walking into a new country. This is like walking into a new room in the same house. This is like sharing a hallway and the same row of framed family pictures, but there's a glass wall between.
Maria Dahvana Headley
