Life And Death Quotes - Page 27

• I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Love, Sad, Thinking Of You

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• You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Change, World

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• You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Truth, Believe

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no one’s death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning.

  Dean Koontz

  Memories, Good Friend, Flames

  Dean Koontz (2004). “The Bad Place”, p.360, Penguin

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• Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.

  Peter Høeg

  People, Decision, Important

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

  Laurel Lea

  Attitude, Depends

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• For death and life, in ceaseless strife,
  Beat wild on this world's shore,
  And all our calm is in that balm—
  Not lost but gone before.

  Caroline Norton

  Gone, World, Calm

  "Not Lost but Gone Before" (ca. 1850). Burton E. Stevenson, Home Book of Quotations, and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations trace "Not lost, but gone before" and similar expressions to Seneca, St. Cyprian, and Matthew Henry.

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• Every human being is called to solidarity in a world battling between life and death

  Ignacio Ellacuria

  World, Solidarity, Humans

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• When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Meditating

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• Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taoism, Substance, Realizing

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• When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Existence

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• Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

  John Ortberg

  Art, Jesus, Hate

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• We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'

  Albert Camus

  Real, Past, Risk

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.97, Vintage

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• The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Race, Flames, Essence

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• The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

  William C. Brown

  Art, Real, Night

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• I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Mean, Samurai

  "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.

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• Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

  Eileen Wilks

  Doe, Life Death, Either Or

  Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.283, Penguin

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• My art takes birth when my loneliness becomes my companion... when I take lives and deaths much personally and work when others play. When I meet myself and find that the truth of life is not the dream of tender age ... but the fire within me that creates the work of art.

  Jeet Aulakh

  Dream, Art, Loneliness

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• Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

  George Friedman

  War, Matter, Transformation

  George Friedman (2011). “The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going”, p.225, Anchor

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• Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.

  Kgalema Motlanthe

  Leadership, Lying, Eye

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• Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune?

  Zhuangzi

  Loss, Night, Men

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• The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.

  Edward Tufte

  Beautiful, Important, Traffic

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• As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Heart, Fullness Of Life, Giving

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• If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Mind, Natural, Metaphysical

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, 1990.

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• The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Writing, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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