Death Quotes - Page 24

• The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

  Mary Midgley

  Life, Philosophy, Food

  Mary Midgley (1998). “Animals and why They Matter”, p.27, University of Georgia Press

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• You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Happiness, Pain

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

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• By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

  Irvine Welsh

  Life, Trainspotting, Dying

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.308, Random House

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• I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

  Banksy

  Life, Time, Mean

  The Sun, 2010.

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• No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Remembrance, Causes

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.317, Random House

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• During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Men, Air

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• Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

  Guy Sajer

  Happiness, Time, Live Life

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.98, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

  Stephen King

  Life, Two, Choices

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 16, 2014

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• Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Order, Giving

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• When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.

  Bernie Glassman

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Worry

  Bernie Glassman (2013). “Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace”, p.62, Penguin

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• Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

  Josiah Royce

  Love, Learning, Positive Thinking

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• Grief is itself a medicine.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Grief, Losing A Loved One

  Charity

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• Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

  Lyman Beecher

  Running, Clever, Liars

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• Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

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• The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.

  Gary L. Francione

  Fashion, Ideas, Doubt

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• Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

  Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale

  Freedom, Understanding, Slavery

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• Whenever you find a preacher who takes the Bible allegorically and figuratively...that preacher is preaching an allegorical gospel which is no gospel. I thank God for a literal Christ, for a literal salvation. There is literal sorrow, literal death, literal Hell, and, thank God, there is a literal Heaven.

  J. Frank Norris

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

  Brittany Maynard

  Life, Time, Peace

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• Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

  Shimon Peres

  Life, Positive Thinking, Positive Attitude

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• It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.

  Agnes Moorehead

  Life, Truth, Fear

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Understanding

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• Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.

  Stephen Charnock

  Happiness, Christian, Jesus

  "Christ Our Passover".

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• You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That’s why so many rednecks die in strange ways.

  Jase Robertson

  Funny, Redneck, Entrepreneur

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• The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.

  Howard Storm

  Christian, Religious, Long

  Howard Storm (2005). “My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life”, p.51, Harmony

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• I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

  Rumi

  Life, People, Taste

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