37 Quotes About Life and Death

Recovering from something so devastating and traumatic can lead you down a new path to a second life. These quotes about life and death highlight the ambiguous nature that exist on each side of the boundary.

“Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it’s a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.”

“As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people’s situations.”

“Even though everybody’s lives are different, in general we’re all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That’s always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.”

“Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.”

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

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

“Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.”

“I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large – especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others – nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.”

“I enjoy every climb – maybe it’s because it’s a literal dance between life and death.”

“I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.”

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.”

“If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.”

“I’m very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What’s most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.”

“In an artwork you’re always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.”

“In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.”

“In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.”

“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”

“Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.”

“Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.”

“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”

“Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.”

“Life and death. At some point we’re gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.”

“Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don’t know how.”

“Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.”

“See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.”

“Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn’t death of things, then there wouldn’t be any life to celebrate.”

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.”

“Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.”

“Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.”

“The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”

“The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual – when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions – it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.”

“There are only three events in a man’s life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.”

“To have faith doesn’t mean you get any less frustrated when you don’t do your best, but you know that it’s not life and death. Take what you’re given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.”

“When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.”

“When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you – it’s an overwhelming experience. If you don’t learn from that, I don’t know what else you’re gonna learn.”

“You’re taught from the day you start medical school that you’re a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror – and you know that power is flawed – it is very hard to get past that.”

“You’re trying to write about something that’s sacred. You’re trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you’re trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you’re trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it’s important to try.”

Some have claimed to experience life after death during a traumatic experience. Many of these beliefs require having faith in the unknown.