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Life and death..."All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on". H. Ellis

Oscar Wilde "Alas I am dying beyond my means

"Life is just one damned thing after another." Elbert Hubbard 






"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."



"Absence and death are the same - only that in death
there is no suffering." Theodore Roosevelt



"Life is to entered upon with courage."
Alexis de Tocqueville

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to
kindle a light of meaning in the darkness
of mere being." Carl Jung



"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved." D.H. Lawrence



"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so life well used brings happy death." Leonardo da Vinci



"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition
that's troublesome." Isaac Asimov



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


"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave
with regret?
There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."
C.S. Lewis
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Man Over Board said…
I absolutely loved this post. Life and death are co-mingled in a way that great quotes can be easily stated and with great inspiration. Thanks so much.
October 2, 2009 at 2:18 PM
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