George MacDonald Quotes

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

You're either living or you're dead.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange.

Death is only a small interruption.

Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

I write about living, not dying.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.