A Matter of Life and Death may refer to:
- A Matter of Life and Death (film), a 1946 Powell and Pressburger film starring David Niven (released as Stairway to Heaven in the U.S.)
- A Matter of Life and Death (play), a 2007 stage adaptation of the film
- A Matter of Life and Death (album), a 2006 album by Iron Maiden
- "A Matter of Life and Death" (song), a 2005 song by Rinaldi Sings
- "Matter of Life and Death" (Space: 1999), the second episode of Space: 1999 television series
- "A Matter of Life and Death", the fifth episode of The Honeymooners television series
- A Matter of Death and Life, a novel by Andrey Kurkov
- A Matter of Death and Life, a book by Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona
Famous quotes containing the words matter, life and/or death:
“I have found little that is “good” about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
“‘Tis of the essence of life here,
Though we choose greatly, still to lack
The lasting memory at all clear,
That life has for us on the wrack
Nothing but what we somehow chose;
Thus are we wholly stripped of pride
In the pain that has but one close,
Bearing it crushed and mystified.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man’s life and work go on after his “death,” whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not.... There is no such thing as death according to our view!”
—Martin Bormann (1900–1945)