Death Life Quotes

...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.

The tongue has the power of life and death.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?

An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.

Where all life dies death lives.

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

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

In the midst of death life persists.

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.

In living we die, in dying we live.

Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.