Life And Death Quotes - Page 6

• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

  Stewart Alsop

  Death, Time, Sleep

  Stewart Alsop (2016). “Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Death, Sarcastic

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• Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Spiritual, Witty

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

  Corazon Aquino

  Life, Death, Wise

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• Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

  Epicurus

  Death, Death Anniversary, Death And Dying

  "Wisdom's folly No.18" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2005.

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• Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.

  Hafez

  Journey, Grieving, Unseen

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• one should be afraid of life, not of death.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Life Death, Should, Afraid Of Life

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• The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Games, Play

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• I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Prepared, Dies

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.213, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We laugh, we cry, we work, we play, we love, we live. And then we die. ... And dead we would remain but for one Man and His mission, even Jesus of Nazareth. ... With all my heart and the fervency of my soul, I lift up my voice in testimony as a special witness and declare that God does live. Jesus is His Son, the Only Begotten of the Father in the flesh. He is our Redeemer; He is our Mediator with the Father. He it was who died on the cross to atone for our sins. He became the firstfruits of the Resurrection. Because He died, all shall live again.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

  Walter Scott

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”

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• It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.

  Terry Pratchett

  Pyramids, Appreciate Life, Ankh

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

  C. S. Lewis

  Taste, Horror, Human Life

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  The more you live, the less you die.

  Janis Joplin

  Dies

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• Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Broken, Perfection

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• Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

  LeCrae

  Pieces, Shapes, Waste

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• Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions... the only assets one can take with him when one dies is one's belief or disbelief

  Harun Yahya

  Wisdom, Islamic, Being Alone

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• Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

  Joseph Campbell

  Aztec, Faces, Life Is

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.160, Princeton University Press

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• It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Time, Men

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 26 Oct. 1769)

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• While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Death, Eulogy

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.260, OUP Oxford

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• Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.

  Happy Rockefeller

  Life, Optimism, Perspective

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• I think it's hard for people to suspend the era they live in and understand the decisions that had to be made often during the western frontier era were life and death. You had to be resourceful and on your feet to try to figure out somebody. You didn't have the benefit of knowing who somebody was.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, Feet, Knowing

  "EMMYS: Kevin Costner On 'Hatfields & McCoys". Interview with Anthony D’Alessandro, deadline.com. June 25, 2012.

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• Dead men tell no tales.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Men

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3334, Delphi Classics

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• You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

  Seneca the Younger

  Live Life, Alive, Ill

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