sad quotes about life and death

Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go. ~Jean de La Fontaine



Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli



Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." ~Bill Maher, on Politically Incorrect, 1995



To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. ~Emily Post



In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together. ~Ralph W. Sockman



The big dispute between the government and Microsoft concerns the Internet "browser," which is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later. As you can imagine, the potential market for this service is huge, so Microsoft would like you to use its browser, and not somebody else's. ~Dave Barry, 1998



The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



They that are born on Halloween shall see more than other folk. ~Saying of unknown origin



My body is here, but my mind has already teed off. ~Author Unknown



Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers. ~Merle Kessler



Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. ~Terri Guillemets



It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What the Dickens is going on here? ~Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989



It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit. ~Author Unknown



Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate. ~Martin H. Fischer



Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher



Sometimes I suffer from indigestion of the mind. ~Carrie Latet



You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. ~Native American Wisdom



An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. ~William Dean Howells



Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ~Ambrose Bierce



Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. ~Isaac Barrow