DEATH AND LIFE
Godly people find life; evil people find death.
Proverbs 11:19
The way of the godly leads to life; their path does not lead to death.
Proverbs 12:28
For whoever finds me [wisdom] finds life and wins approval from the Lord. But those who miss me have injured themselves. All who hate me love death.
Proverbs 8:35–36
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life,
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare
Life can only be understood backward; it must be lived forward.
Søren Kierkegaard
Life is what happens while you’re making other plans.
Life is fragile; handle with prayer.
I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
I hate death; in fact, I could live forever without it.
Pogo
Man looking at the obituaries: “Strange, isn’t it, how everyone seems to die in alphabetical order?”
Not only does life begin at forty—it begins to show.
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
The trouble with life is that it is so daily.
Live each day as if it were your last—someday you’ll be right.
He who lives to live forever, never fears dying.
William Penn
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
William Cowper
The clock of life is wound but once,
And no man has the power
To tell when the hands will stop,
At late or early hour.
Now is the only time you own;
Live, love, work with a will.
Place no faith in tomorrow;
The clock may then be still.
It wasn’t until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it was to say, “I don’t know.”
W. Somerset Maugham
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
Life’s race well run,
Life’s work well done,
Life’s victory won,
Now cometh rest.
E. H. Parker
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
William James
My Task
To love someone more dearly every day,
To help a wandering child to find his way,
To ponder o’er a noble thought, and pray,
And smile when evening falls.
This is my task.
To follow truth as blind men long for light,
To do my best from dawn of day till night,
To keep my heart fit for His holy sight,
And answer when He calls.
This is my task.
Maude Louise Ray
Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
Louisa May Alcott
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
William Barclay
Your life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it only once.
Lillian Dickson
I affirm life; I challenge problems; I accept responsibility; I believe in God; I live today.
Elizabeth Searle Lamb
It is we ourselves and not outward circumstances who make death what it can be, a death freely and voluntarily accepted.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ninety-five percent of the people who died today had expected to live a lot longer.
Albert M. Wells Jr.
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.
A. Mark Wells
So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan which moves
To the mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
William Cullen Bryant
The hardest thing of all—to die rightly—an exam nobody is spared—and how many pass it?
Dag Hammarskjöld
We make a living by what we get—a life by what we give.
Death is not a period
Bringing the sentence of life to a close
Like the spilling of a moment
Or the dissolution of an hour.
Death is a useful comma
Which punctuates, and labors
To convince
Of much to follow.
John Donne