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Life Death Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”

Herman Melville

Wakeful Age, Life Death, Old Wisdom, Age, Life, Death

2. “There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom Choice, Gas Chamber, Life Death, Existence, Fate, Free

3. “There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.”

Albert Camus

Life Death, Beauty And Melancholy, Existential Duality, Life, Death, Beauty

4. “And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.”

William Wordsworth

Serene Eye, Thoughtful Life, Machine Pulse, Existence, Life Death, Reflection

5. “I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.”

Khalil Gibran

Life Death, Conversation Wisdom Understanding Eternity, Life, Wisdom, Understanding

6. “Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death.”

Khalil Gibran

Life Death, Mortality Existence, Nature Ephemeral, Death, Life, Mortality

7. “If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.”

Khalil Gibran

Life Death, Unified Spirit, Heart Openness, Life, Death, Spirit

8. “Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Life Death, Sunrise Death, Greater Life, Philosophy, Time, Hope

9. “He had liked her enormously, and he loved Krug with the same passion that a big sleek long-flewed hound feels for the high-booted hunter who reeks of the marsh as he leans towards the red fire. Krug could take aim at a flock of the most popular and sublime human thoughts and bring down a wild goose any time. But he could not kill death.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Love Passion, Life Death, Hunter, Emotion, Struggle, Fate

10. “Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Life Death, Light Darkness, Philosophy Existence, Time, Soul

11. “Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.”

Stephen King

Life Death, Immortality, Time, Legacy, Shining, Soul

12. “Life is going forth; death is returning home.”

Lao Tzu

Life Death, Tao Wisdom, Cycle, Balance, Perspective, Transition

13. “Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.”

Lao Tzu

Life Death, Tenderness, Flexibility, Rigidity, Tao Wisdom, Change