Life And Death Quotes - Page 17

• The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.

  Edgar Morin

  Grief, Certainty Of Death, Hours

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• The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

  Hugh Sidey

  Running, Eye, Men

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• The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stars, Destiny, Men

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• In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.

  Clement Attlee

  War, Struggle, Destiny

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• It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

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• Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Heartbroken, Courage, Carpe Diem

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• I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity
  and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Creativity, Reality

  Erich Fromm (1994). “On Being Human”, Continuum

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• The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Girl, Death, Years

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• Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Important, Relax, Matter

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• What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Business, Turkeys

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• It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property?

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Government, People

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.

  Tom Lehman

  Mean, Hard Work, Giving

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• I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Courage, Two

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• Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

  Rajneesh

  Positivity, Night, Life Is

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• The healthiest response to life is joy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Happiness, Joy

  Twitter post from Aug 9, 2012

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• When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Grieving, Bereavement

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them.

  Christopher Pike

  Past, Thinking, Long

  Christopher Pike (2001). “Witch”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Death, Dying

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.434

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• What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Father, Eye, Son

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.329, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.

  Will Durant

  Hunting, Blood, Games

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Thinking, Light, Shadow

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• I am going to say something that will knock your lights off. God has the power to take life but he can't. He's got the power to do it but he won't. He's bound, he can't. He says, "Death and life are in the power" of whose tongue? Yours.

  Jesse Duplantis

  Light, Tongue, Bounds

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• The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

  Edgar Morin

  Destiny, Men, World

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• The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Men, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (2000). “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

  Wangari Maathai

  Country, Men, Extinction

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