Quotes About Life and Death

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein 

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Alice Walker

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Amelia Burr 

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Anais Nin

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.

Anne Wilson Schaef

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Barry Lopez

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russel 

You can shed tears that she is gone, 

or you can smile because she has lived.

You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,

or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.

Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,

or you can be full of the love you shared.

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, 

or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

You can remember her only that she is gone,

or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.

You can cry and close your mind, 

be empty and turn your back.

Or you can do what she'd want:

smile, open your eyes, love and go on.

David Harkins 

Every man dies - Not every man really lives.

William Ross Wallace

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.

Voltaire