Life and Death

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett, in Life and Death

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

Charles Bukowski, in Life and Death

I don't feel good.

Luther Burbank, (dying words), in Life and Death

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler, in Life and Death

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

Albert Camus, The Stranger, in Life and Death

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti, in Life and Death

I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.

Jack Handey, in Life and Death

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, in Life and Death

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Robert A. Heinlein, in Life and Death

I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in Life and Death

Live to win, dare to fail.

James Hetfield, in Life and Death

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus, in Life and Death

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

Garth Brooks, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

Kehlog Albran, in Life and Death

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benét, in Life and Death

It's like déjà vu all over again.

Yogi Berra, in Life and Death

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind.

George Bernard, in Law and Politics and Life and Death

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Berlioz, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Life and Death and Men and Women