Quotes with death-like

Quotes 2141 till 2160 of 4355.

  • Lou Reed Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
    Lou Reed
    American musician, singer, and songwriter (1942 - 2013)
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  • David Gemmell Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
    Legend (2011)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Isaac Asimov Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Yann Martel Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.
    Het leven van Pi p.18
    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Edward Young Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • James Russell Lowell Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Alexis Carrel Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Rose Tremain Life should be embraced like a lover.
    The Swimming Pool Season (2011) 79
    Rose Tremain
    English author, chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1943 - )
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Douglas Adams Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Dwight L. Moody light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Light gatherer. You fell from a star
    into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside
    mirrored in you,
    and now you shine like a snowgirl,
    a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder
    you squeal at and fly in.
    The Light Gatherer, from Feminine Gospels (2002)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There's something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Like a beast in a pen, I'm cut off
    From my friends, freedom, the Sun.
    But the hunters are gaining ground;
    I've nowhere else to run.
    Selected Poems (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Buddha Like a beautiful flower full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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