Life And Death Quotes - Page 10

• People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you start feeling separate from existence the fear of death arises because then death seems to be dangerous. You will no longer be separate; what will happen to your ego, your personality? And you have cultivated the personality with such care, with such great effort; you have polished it your whole life, and death will come and destroy it

  Rajneesh

  Death, People, Personality

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• Laughter. Yes, laughter is the Zen attitude towards death and towards life too, because life and death are not separate. Whatsoever is your attitude towards life will be your attitude towards death, because death comes as the ultimate flowering of life. Life exists for death. Life exists through death. Without death there will be no life at all. Death is not the end but the culmination, the crescendo. Death is not the enemy it is the friend. It makes life possible.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Attitude, Laughter

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• Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

  Eugene Ionesco

  Death, Forever, Born

  Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz (2015). “Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Crush, Futility Of Life, Manifestation

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• The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Passing Away, Essentials, Birth

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• I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Life, Religious, Ocean Exploration

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• In our male-oriented God phase, it's always about conquering and control of life and death. This power leads to a kind of thinking that is no thinking; it is only sterile and what can overcome. To reach that depth in terms of female divinity is to accept nurture as godly. It's not just something that your mom does for you when something's broken and you need a bandage; it's about something deeper and it is in contradistinction from the endless displays of power.

  Andre Alexis

  Mom, Godly, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

  Susan Abulhawa

  Immensity

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.233, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

  Rick Bragg

  Believe, Writing, Should

  Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.20, Vintage

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• To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die — to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the moment, so that we utterly "disappear." Thoughts of past, present, or future, of life and death, of this world and the next, are transcended in the superabundance of the now. Time and timelessness coalesce: this is the moment of eternity.

  Philip Kapleau

  Past, Giving, Demand

  "The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide".

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• What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor.

  Friedrich Engels

  Class, Doe, Doctrine

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.128, Haymarket Books

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• I think the kicks in Wing Chun are enough. It´s much easier to use your hands than to use your feet. Your hand is able to reach your opponent long before your foot. Why take the long way to attack (circle), when there is a much more direct method of attack? If you are using your hands, then your opponent can´t see a kick coming if you have to use it. When you teach Kung Fu, you can fool a lot of people, but not yourself. You can make like a movie and do many complicated movements and kicks, but you only fool yourself as to whether that would work in a real situation of life and death.

  Wong Shun Leung

  Real, Thinking, Hands

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• Life and death and rebirth live within me.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Rebirth, Death And Rebirth

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Jun 16, 2016

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• Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to love its vulnerability, asking for care, attention, guidance, and support. Life and death are connected by vulnerability. The newborn child and the dying elder both remind us of the preciousness of our lives. Let's not forget the preciousness and vulnerability of life during the times we are powerful, successful, and popular.

  Henri Nouwen

  Powerful, Children, Mean

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Long, Comfort, May

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• Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life and death. In the long glare of day, the snows descend Upon that Mountain; none beholds them there, Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun, Or the sunbeams dart through them.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sight, Long, Snow

  1816 'Mont Blanc'.

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• Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

  Albert Camus

  Evil, Unity, Suffering

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.24, Vintage

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• For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept

  Sigmund Brouwer

  Giving, Thieves, Hope And Love

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• The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of today’s and the confidence in tomorrow’s love is also part of today’s. And when one dies, the memory lives in the other, and is warm and breathing. And when both die - I almost believe, rationalist though I am - that somewhere it remains, indestructible and eternal, enriching all of the universe by the mere fact that once it existed.

  Isaac Asimov

  Memories, Believe, Love Is

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

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• Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.

  J. D. Greear

  Damage Is Done, Essentials, Doctrine

  Joshua Harris, J. D. Greear (2013). “Humble Orthodoxy: Holding the Truth High Without Putting People Down”, p.1, Multnomah

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• I remain committed to my core family as one I can trust and depend on. The end result is the assurance that I'm surrounded by the people who will help me, stick by me, and fight alongside me, through good and bad, life and death.

  Sonny Barger

  Fighting, People, Sticks

  FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Feb 15, 2015

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• I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there is so much suffering in the world. As I grew with the song I realized I shouldn't limit these questions solely to God; I should ask those questions of others and of myself.

  John Legend

  Song, Prayer, Live Life

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• God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

  Louis Pasteur

  May, Stones, Littles

  "The Life of Pasteur" published by René Vallery-Radot, translated by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, (p. 114), 1902.

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• In the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy stereotypes. What did they find? In a nutshell: Hobbes was right, Rousseau was wrong.

  Steven Pinker

  Past, Data, Two

  "The Blank Slate". Book by Steven Pinker, 2002.

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• Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.

  Peter Heller

  Night, Waiting, Black

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.68, Vintage

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