Life Death Quotes - Page 5

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

  Eileen Wilks

  Life And Death, Doe, Either Or

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

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• Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Blow, Men

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• By turns sad and uplifting, Life in the Valley of Death tells the amazing tale of Alan Rabinowitz's courageous and spirited efforts to protect Burma's (Myanmar's) remaining tigers and establish the Hukawng Valley Reserve. It is hard to imagine a more passionate or exciting account of today's conservation challenges, or a more thoughtful rendering of life, death, and politics in Burma's most remote corners.

  Thant Myint-U

  Uplifting, Thoughtful, Effort

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• She must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity.

  Taheyya Kariokka

  Dancing, Sorrow, Dignity

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• Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Life, Pain, House

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• I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death

  Ivan Illich

  Life, Disease, Want

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• The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Death, Things In Life, Tragedy

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• People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.

  Erich Fromm

  Philosophy, People, Life And Death

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.16, Lantern Books

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• The mind is the enemy of intuition, according to many New Age adherents, but I don't buy that. I look at everything in terms of polarities - two ends of the same continuum. Young/old, male/female, individuality/conformity, work/play, freedom/constraint, right/left, day/night, life/death, rational/emotional, and so on.

  Shakti Gawain

  Night, Emotional, Play

  "Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Live Life, Hands

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• We die of too much life.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Death, Too Much

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.315

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• Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

  Mason Cooley

  Life, Morning, Awakening

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• ... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Death, Respect

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• The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Death, Real

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The end of a life is always vivifying.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Death, Birth

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.206, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Death, Dying

  Samuel Beckett (2010). “The Collected Shorter Plays”, p.328, Grove Press

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• If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

  David Hume

  Life, Death, Reflection

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.683, Delphi Classics

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• The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Death, Attractive

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• If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Thinking, Want

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• Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Fool, Firsts

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• No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.

  Alfred Doblin

  Country, Water, Peaceful

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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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• I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Punishment, Support

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• If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Death, Consistency

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.20, Stanford University Press

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• I think death is not simply the last few moments of life, death is something that runs throughout the whole of life. Each of our moments is not only the possibility of affirmation, but it's also we're saying farewell at each moment to something.

  Kevin Hart

  Running, Farewell, Thinking

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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