Jean Cocteau Quote

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

John Steinbeck

• Death
• World

Our lives teach us who we are.

Salman Rushdie

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

• Inspirational
• Death
• Wisdom

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

Jacqueline Cochran

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

Annie Lennox

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Tennessee Williams

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

John Milton

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

• Death

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

• Death
• World

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Mark Twain

• Humor

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Henry David Thoreau

• Learning

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Alexander Dumas

• Death

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Hermann Hesse

• Knowledge
• Wisdom

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

Saint Patrick

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.

Saint Patrick

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

David Copperfield

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Anais Nin

• Death
• Suffering