Isobelle Carmody Quotes

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.

Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.

If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

The only certainty is death.

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.