Quotes about life and death thread

[swag]

"And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus."

Principia Discordia

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. "'Cause if you wanna be immortal, you gotta have something to trade in." -Jim Thirwell

[TOhioLiberal]

2. From my friend's rememberance card...

Miss Me, But Let Me Go

When I come to the end of the road
and the sun has set for me,
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room.
Why cry for a soul so free?

Miss me a little, but not too long,
And not with your head bowed low.
Remember the love that we once shared,
Miss me, but let me go.

For this is the journey we all must take
And each must go alone.
It is part of the Master's plan
A step on the road home.

When you are lonely and sick at heart,
Go to the friends we know.
And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds--
Miss me, but let me go.

:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[elshiva]

3. "Die a dual death, you dirty dump of dingo droppings."

My brother once said that and he also said, "I want to kill some to death, mortally until they die."

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. ~Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. A couple of my favorites:

Life is eternal;

And love is immortal;

And death is only a horizon;

And a horizon is nothing

Save the limit of our sight.

~~Author unknown; found in a Hallmark card, 1988.


Grieve not,

Nor think of me with tears.

But laugh

And talk to me as if I were beside you.

I loved you so...

'Twas Heaven here with you.

~~Isla Paschal Richardson


:grouphug:

[fizzgig]

6. death is just another path

one that we all must take. the grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it...

[amitten]

7. I must ask you... what is that little rotating fuzzy animal in your

sig?

On edit: That is also my quote.

Not really.

[fizzgig]

8. it's my fizzgig

a little creature from the best movie ever, the dark crystal

i love your sig, btw...cracks me up every time

[REP]

9. Life does not cease to be funny when people die

any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh - George Bernard Shaw

[REP]

10. Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed. - George Bernard Shaw

[cobalt1999]

13. A variation: "I plan to live forever. So far, so good." - Steven Wright.

[Guava Jelly]

11. here are a few

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -- Thomas L. Holdcroft
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.-- Abraham Lincoln

[YankeyMCC]

12. The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

[necso]

14. Basho

On a journey, ill;
my dreams take flight, wandering
over withered fields.

(literary license)

[meegbear]

15. "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it."
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."
"On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down."
"I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear."


And of course:
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

[begin_within]

16. Do movie quotes count?

"Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dyin's as natural as livin'. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live." - Clark Gable to Marilyn Monroe in "The Misfits"

"We're all dying, aren't we? We're not teaching each other what we really know, are we?" - Marylin Monroe in "The Misfits"

"Honey, nothing can live unless something dies." - Clark Gable in "The Misfits" after Marylin Monroe complains about the killing of horses to make dog food

"You have the gift for life, Rosylyn. The rest of us, we're just looking for a place to hide and watch it all go by." - Eli Wallach to Marilyn Monroe in "The Misfits"

[Hugin]

17. "Bury me on top of Marylin Monroe" -- Groucho Marx.

[wildhorses]

18. death, be not proud.

do not go gently into that dark night.

death takes a holiday.

dance of death.