sad quotes about life and death

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness. ~Emily Dickinson



For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. ~W.J. Ronald Tucker



My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time. ~Linda Sunshine



When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves. ~Eda LeShan



Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton



The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. ~Damon Runyon, "More Than Somewhat," in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."



All too frequently, anxiety crushes not only your spirit and your potential, but your ability to take care of your mind and body. ~Jonathan Davidson and Henry Dreher, The Anxiety Book: Developing Strength in the Face of Fear



For me, mowing the lawn with a very loud gas-powered mower is the best time for karaoke. And I'm sure my neighbors would agree. ~Author Unknown



I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~Harlan Miller



I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. ~Woodrow Wilson



A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community. ~Martin H. Fischer



The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ~George Orwell



Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. ~Swami Nirmalananda, Enlightened Anarchism



Paraprosdokian: figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part. Example: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." ~Groucho Marx



The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. ~W. Eugene Smith



One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. ~Evelyn Waugh



We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. ~Charles Caleb Colton



The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. ~Author Unknown



"Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born;" I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas it is a well-known fact that the said sum total is constantly on the increase. I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: "Every moment dies a man, And one and a sixteenth is born." I may add that the exact figures are 1.067, but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of metre. ~Charles Babbage, letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about a couplet in his "The Vision of Sin"