Life And Death Quotes - Page 8

• The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the difference between life and death. In many ways, I liken their reactions to the way I felt while serving in Iraq.

  Pete Hegseth

  Iraq, Differences, Choices

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• What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.

  Madeleine Bunting

  People, Culture, Permission

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• How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

  Emma Goldman

  Understanding, Tolerance, Atheism

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

  William Cowper

  Get Well, Recovery, Keys

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.15

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• Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

  Homer

  Life, Eulogy, Razors

  "Iliad". Poem by Homer, Book X. Translated by Samuel Butler, 1900.

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• Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

  Bodhidharma

  Suffering, Important, Vain

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.13, Macmillan

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• The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.

  Salvador Dali

  Sleep, Blood, Nails

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 1, 1963.

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• I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

  Karlie Kloss

  Helping Others, Thinking, Skills

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• Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above.

  Gia Carangi

  Pain, Mistake, Heaven

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.

  Bobby Fischer

  Struggle, World, Bigger

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. March 10, 1999.

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• It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.

  Mark Rothko

  Mean, Reality, Artist

  Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (2006). “The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art”, p.21, Yale University Press

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• People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales the conventional notions of justice, freedom, law and order, nature, family, etc. The writer, lone rider, has the power, if not always the skills, wisdom, or desire, to disturb this false contentment.

  Robert Coover

  Hands, Order, Law

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• How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fall, Wind, Synthesis

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.484

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• I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

  George Eads

  Jobs, Thinking, Interesting

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• Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.

  Mike Barnicle

  Baseball, Red, Matter

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• So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Feel Good, Feelings, Normal

  "Death in the Afternoon" by Ernest Hemingway, (Ch. 1), 1932.

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• I want to be a pretty corpse.

  Eva Braun

  Life, Death, Insanity

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• The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Mother, Daughter, Black

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• If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

  P. D. James

  Doctors, Hands, Risk

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• Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Spiritual, Wine, Flames

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Rivers

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• Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws?
  She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Law, Church

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable from the ivy stems on which it lay. Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspirational Life, Eye, Birth Life And Death

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• You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?

  Cokie Roberts

  Mother, Cancer, Kids

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• Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord.

  Helen Keller

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Strong

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