HELP!!give me some quotes about life and death!!homework?
Here ya go. They came from http://oneproverb.net/bwfolder/lifedeathlivdibw.html
Life is the only thing worth living for.
Zen
All of life is a dream walking, all of death is a going home.
Chinese
The dead add their strength and counsel to the living.
Hopi
Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by and is no more.
Madagascar
Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.
Khalil Gibran
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
Shawnee (Chief Tecumseh)
Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink.
Shunryu Suzuki
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
Duwamish
Life unfolds on a sheet called time and once finished is gone forever.
Chinese
They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.
Tuscarora
Life is a treasure hunt, love is the treasure.
Rosicrucian
One is born, one dies; the land increases.
Ghana
Life is instantaneous, and living is dying.
Buddhist
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
Kahlil Gibran
Live every day like your hair was on fire.
Zen
Death does not sound a trumpet.
Congo
Life begins the day you start a garden.
Chinese
The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter.
Yiddish
Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.
Blackfoot
The dying person cannot wait for the shroud to be woven.
Madagascar
Life is a perpetual drunkenness; the pleasure passes, but the headache remains.
from ‘Moon Over Morocco’
There is no King on the Road of Death.
Japanese Buddhist
What we do in life, echoes in eternity.
Latin
Sleep is the cousin of death.
Congo
Life is warfare.
Lucius Seneca
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
Buddha
There is more time than life.
Mexican
Whom the gods love die young.
English
Life is a dead-end street.
Henry L. Mencken
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell
Let the dead bury the dead.
Western Koan
Obstacles are a natural part of life, just as boulders are a natural part of the course of the river. The river does not complain or get depressed because there are boulders in its path.
I Ching
All who have died are equal.
Comanche
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset…
Blackfoot
Few desires, happy life.
from ‘Moon Over Morocco’
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
Chief Tecumseh
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster, one moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
Chinese
Death squares all accounts.
Vietnamese
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Arabic
Tomorrow or next life which comes first, we will never know.
Tibetan Buddhist
War is Death’s feast.
Chinese
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
India
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it.
Crow
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
Yiddish
Hoka Hey! It is a good time to die.
Chief Crazy Horse
He that can’t endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Yiddish
In the desert of life the wise person travels by caravan, while the fool prefers to travel alone.
Arabic
We were born to die anyhow.
Mexican
When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.
Arapaho
Both happy and sad like somenone who hopes to inherit by his father’s death.
Madagascar
Children are the reward of life.
Congo
A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
Hopi
He who does not cultivate his field, will die of hunger.
Guinea
Life is an onion which one peels crying.
French
Sleep is the brother of Death.
Chinese
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart
Hope dies last of all.
Mexican
Education is the work of your entire life.
Haitian
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, he world cries and you rejoice.
Cherokee
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth.
Thich Nhat Nanh
A coward dies before the courageous dies.
Somali
Deprive man of his life lie and you rob him of his happiness.
Ibsen
If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.
Yiddish
The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.
Samurai
Only when the serpent dies do you know its true length.
Haitian
If ever you should need my life, come and take it.
The Seagull
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
Italian
Don’t hope for life without problems. An easy life results in a judgemental and lazy mind.
Kyong Ho
He who lives with hope dies happy.
Mexican
If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
If you are tough you don’t live longer, if you are weak don’t die faster.
Somali
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
Arabic
In death, I am born.
Hopi
The light heart lives long.
Irish
It is worth dying to find out what life is.
T.S. Eliot
Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
All who have died are equal.
Comanche
Call a child a bad name and he will live up to it.
Chinese
You judge the way you live.
Mexican
The brave man lives until the coward wants.
Mexican
When you die, you will be spoken of as those in the sky, like the stars.
Yurok
It’s better to be poor, than to live alone.
Mexican
It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace.
Shenandoah
Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
Spanish
A smile will gain you ten more years of life.
Chinese
When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian
Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it, and start living the life the Creator intended for you.
Hopi
All’s alike at the latter day; a bag of gold and whisp of hay.
Chinese
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Seneca
Dance as if no one’s watching, sing as if no one’s listening, and live everyday as if it were your last.
Irish