Quotes about Life
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
— John Donne
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
— Dennis Prager
From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
— Drew Barrymore
Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.
— Tullian Tchividjian
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
— George Eliot
My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
— George Washington
Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
— Henry David Thoreau
In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
— Victor Hugo
If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
— Will Rogers
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.
— Henry Ward Beecher
One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.
— John Donne