Life And Death Quotes - Page 16

• So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

  George Orwell

  Long, Humans, Human Beings

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Silly, Angel, Games

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• So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conslusion for yourself as to what life is all about.

  Catherine Marshall

  Ideas, Issues, Long

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• Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Equal, Stills

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• Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Mean, Men, Play

  FaceBook post by Rudolfo Anaya from Sep 11, 2015

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• Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Tension, Acknowledge

  Brennan Manning (2013). “NIV, Ragamuffin Bible, eBook: Meditations for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Brokenhearted”, p.2575, Harper Collins

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• We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.

  Brennan Manning

  People, Would Be, Deeds

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• Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

  Toni Morrison

  Life, Death, Nature

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room. She would always feel me and think of me. I could see that, but there was no longer anything I could do. Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it, the story of my life and death, was hers if she chose tot ell it, even to one person at a time.

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Thinking, Choices

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• There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.

  Robert Cormier

  Heart, Blood, Waiting

  Robert Cormier (2013). “Fade”, p.10, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress Weatherwax. There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, People, Mistress

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• The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.

  Andrei Zhdanov

  War, Enemy, World

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• I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

  W. G. Sebald

  Believe, Black And White, Territory

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• In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Art, Peace

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• And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

  Pablo Neruda

  Grieving, Sorrow, Earth

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• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

  W. H. Davies

  Life, Stress, Humor

  Songs of Joy (1911) "Leisure"

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• There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Freedom, Integrity

  Elie Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

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• But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.

  James K. Baxter

  Fall, Heart, Loss

  Vincent O'Sullivan, James K. Baxter (1976). “James K. Baxter”

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• In this world, there is life and death; he who misses the life shall never die anymore, because he is already a dead!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Missing, World

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• Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Grieving, Bird, Cracks

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• Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Father, Thinking

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• Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Heart, Self

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• I experienced the reality of the spiritual body and learned that it has every faculty of the physical body, though with greater sensitivity and some dimensions added... There will be nothing shocking in the transition, only a continuation of who I am now.

  Catherine Marshall

  Spiritual, Reality, Grieving

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• My mother and sister must be very happy to be home with God, and I am sure their love and prayers are always with me. When I go home to God, for death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Prayer, Home

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• There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Birth Life And Death, Suffering, Events

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