The Life/Death-related Quotes List Page

"Some people hope to achieve immortality through their works or their children. I would prefer to achieve it by not dying." - Woody Allen

"Illegitimus non carborundum"

"I'm not the person your mother warned you about... her imagination isn't that good" - Amy Gorin

"Getting old isn't too bad once you consider the alternative"

"Person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt person doing it." - Chinese Proverb

"That's just kitten-eating wrong" - Richard Henderson, on linux-kernel

"Any sufficiently advanced man is indistinguishable from God"

"If it was easy to do, we'd find someone cheaper than you to do it"

"If a person with split personalities threatens suicide, is that a hostage situation?"

"My interest is in the future, because that's where I'll be spending the rest of my life"

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Mahatma Gandhi

"Paranoid schizophrenics outnumber their enemies at least two to one"

"Transhumanism is the philosophy that views death and taxes as engineering problems"

"Mother said that there would be days like this. She just never said there would be so many."

"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.'" - George Carlin

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives" - Charles William Dement

"Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you." - Nelson Algren

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." - A. Whitney Brown

"I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead."

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

"Believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see."

"Life is like a joss-stick. First it stinks and then you die"

"There is nothing permanent except change" - Heraclitus

"Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece" - Vladimir Nabokov

"Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile." - Sean Connery

"Life is what happens to us while we're making other plans." - John Lennon

"We walk into the long goodnight now my friends, and I don't know how many of us will be coming back. I hope to see you all on one of the many other sides yet to come."

"In the end, we're all dead" - Keynes

"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did ...in his sleep. Not screaming like the passengers in his car."

"The management is not responsible for loss of life, limbs or liberty whilst within this non-linear pseudo-chaotic space." - My door

"The meaning of life, is the knowledge of being."

"In the end there is nothing and everything. Everyone and no-one. And the beyond .. for what is beyond the end is the secret"

"We shall not go quietly into the night..."

"Reality is but a state of mind "

"Death is a long voyage.. life is slightly longer " - Take an experimentally minded guess.

"He who dies with the most toys... still dies" - No Fear

"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together." - Carl Zwanzig

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. " - Joseph Stalin

"Leisure without study is death " - Seneca

"If you understand, things are as they are. If you do not understand, things are as they are." - Gensha, Zen Master

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

"This fundamental thing to remember is this; most of what you encounter will be shit."

"As someone pointed out recently, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation." - Jean Kerr

"Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things." - T. S. Eliot

"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried."

"Of the all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." - Ozzy Osbourne

"Frustration - precise aim at blurred targets"

"As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of ties. If anyone thinks that the mesh of a net is an independent, isolated thing, he is mistaken. It is called a net because it is made up of a series of interconnected meshes, and each mesh has its place and responsibility in relation to other meshes. " - Buddha

"Take time to stop and listen to the trees growing."

"If the mind loses control, then who is left driving?"

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

"Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean that they're not after you"

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