Life And Death Quotes - Page 11

• Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of
  such a place?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Progress, Degradation

  "Lindbergh Said to Regret Misperceptions Over Jews" by Herber Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 20, 1980.

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• So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever had fall away. The ideas of life and death, of rebirth, of reincarnation, karma, God, truth, knowledge - all these things fall away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Dream, Yoga

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• Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.

  Bodhidharma

  Life, Hate, Rebirth

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.59, Macmillan

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• How do you react when your own government lies to you systematically about life-and-death questions? As I have noted earlier, the answer is political action in the state legislatures, and one weapon in the hands of the public is an understanding of the pseudo-science and pseudo-epidemiology represented by articles like this one.

  Harris L Coulter

  Lying, Hands, Government Lies

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• There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Thinking, Today

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• There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Moving, Clouds

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• Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Steps

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• My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

  Joseph Addison

  Destiny, Antidote, Bane

  Henry Jones, Nicholas Rowe, Joseph Addison, William Congreve (1776). “The Earl of Essex, a Tragedy”

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• Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

  Paul Theroux

  Erotic, Rooms, Hotel

  Paul Theroux (2002). “Hotel Honolulu”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

  Philip Sidney

  Pain, Monsters, Hell

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• I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.

  Barbara Kruger

  Power, Issues, Trying

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• Every fear is fear of death.

  Wilhelm Stekel

  Fear Of Death, Life Death

  Wilhelm Stekel (1999). “Conditions of Nervous Anxiety and Their Treatment”, p.377, Psychology Press

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• Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing, all, and beyond all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Enlightenment, Living Fully

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• We use the word "God" as representative of that which is timeless, immortal and infinite, that which produces order, which holds together the nucleus of an atom, which gives us life and death, neither masculine nor feminine, not a person, beyond any comprehension.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Order, Giving

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• I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

  Julianna Baggott

  Running, Believe, Men

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• Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Long, Long Life, Made

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.109, 谷月社

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• And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

  William Ernest Henley

  Friendly, Medical, Quiet

  William Ernest Henley (2016). “A Book of Verses”, p.1, Read Books Ltd

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• And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Thoughtful, Breathing

  'She was a phantom of delight' (1807)

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• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Issues, God Life, Condemnation

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1985). “A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen”, p.40, Ignatius Press

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• Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Laughing, Judging

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.431, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

  Frederick Douglass

  Color, Lines, Mets

  Speech at the Convention of Colored Men, Louisville, Ky., 24 Sept. 1883

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• Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

  Hildegard Knef

  Guarantees That, Fear Of Death, Life Death

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• the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

  Melanie Klein

  Anxiety, Instinct, Activity

  Melanie Klein (2002). “Envy and Gratitude”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Believe, Blow, Priests

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• I believe the approach we take to talking to our kids about drugs can, in some cases, mean the difference between life and death. So my approach is really simple: I just don't want them to die. And I want them to be able to save someone's life if they see someone die.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Believe, Kids, Mean

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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