Quotes of: Life-and-death Keyword

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Michel de Montaigne

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

Ryan Holmes

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Samuel Butler

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Thomas Browne

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

Theodor Reik

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Victor Hugo

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

William A. Drake

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

W. C. Fields

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Euripides

Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death.

Carroll Bryant

Life offers many reasons to be alive. Death offers none.

Aditya Ajmera

The life is cruel death to me without you.

Veronica Franco

I'm Draco Malfoy, I'm Draco, I'm on your side!" Draco was on the upper landing, pleading with another masked Death Eater. Harry Stunned the Death Eater as they passed: Malfoy looked around, beaming, for his savior, and Ron punched him from under the ...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then ...

The Waves

Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.

The House of Dust

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

The Fellowship of the Ring

To you, death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you'll never see, the children you'll never hold, the wife you'll never love. It's frightening to almost lose your future, and it's heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other peop...

Gatekeepers

That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.

Norwegian Wood

What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do, of utter futility? No? Doesn't it occur to you that the sort of life people like us lead is remarkably like death?

Thérèse Desqueyroux

Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living s...

Paul et Virginie