Life And Death Quotes - Page 12

• A poem's life and death dependeth still
  Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

  Alexander Brome

  Poet, Wit, Reader

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• There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Issues, Climate Change

  John F. Kerry's Speech at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, archive.boston.com. December 16, 2009.

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• [On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.

  Riane Eisler

  Religious, Art, Love Life

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• Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Transformation, Illusion, States

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• If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.

  Kyle Minor

  Land, Southern, Causes

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."

  Steven Pressfield

  Drama, War, Character

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Thinking, Islands, Flying

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• I know I shall not live very long. But why is that so sad? Is a festival more beautiful because it lasts longer? My sensuous perceptions grow sharper, as if I were supposed to take in everything with the few years that will be offered to me ... And now love will still blossom for me before I depart, and if I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Beautiful, Flower, Hair

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• Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Self, Disputes, Multiple

  Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.

  Susan Fenimore Cooper

  Peculiar, Mastery, May

  Susan Fenimore Cooper (1998). “Rural Hours”, p.126, University of Georgia Press

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• I think its really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.

  Freddie Stroma

  Thinking, Order, Mind

  Biography\Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.

  Merle Hoffman

  Powerful, Fall, Abortion

  Merle Hoffman (2012). “Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room”, p.59, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.

  Ann Bridge

  Attitude, House, Dying

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.109, A&C Black

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• The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security.....When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same....The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Insecure, Love Is, Men

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• Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

  Winifred Holtby

  Fate, Men, Water

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• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Aliens, Pleasure

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Life and death have been lacking in my life.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Lacking, Has Beens

  "Discussion". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1932.

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• Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Death, Men

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• It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.

  Peter Alliss

  Golf, Reflection, Games

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• I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.

  David O. Russell

  Feet, Cinema, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit.

  Kathleen Dowling Singh

  Unions, Spirit, Produce

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• Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. v One could wish no easier death than that of Socrates, calmly discussing philosophy with his friends; one could fear nothing worse than that of Jesus, dying in torment, among the insults, the mockery, the curses of the whole nation. In the midst of these terrible sufferings, Jesus prays for his cruel murderers. Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Christ are those of a God.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Jesus, Philosophy, People

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• It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Done

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• I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

  May Sarton

  Learning To Trust, Ready, Dies

  May Sarton (2015). “May Sarton: A Self-Portrait”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

  Clarence Darrow

  Real, Doors, Office

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