Dies Quotes - Page 27

• If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Long

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you get to the top of anything else, it washes away. You will die. The only thing that stays with you forever is your awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Dedication

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• There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Watches

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• Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Hurt, Buddhism

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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, Life And Death, Meditation

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• A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think it should be. It's a study that you follow for the rest of your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attitude, Buddhism, Thinking

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• You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

  Heinrich Heine

  Writing, Fighting, Ideas

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• The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.

  Joseph C. Aldrich

  Christian, Self, Joy

  Joseph C. Aldrich, Joe Aldrich (1993). “Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You”, Multnomah

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• The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe.

  John Harricharan

  Grief, Butterfly, Grieving

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• To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

  Criss Jami

  Memorial Day, Courageous, Heroic

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.108, Criss Jami

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• One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won't die."

  Jess C Scott

  Hands, Purple, White

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan”, p.49, jessINK

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• It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Mean, Fighting, Numbers

  Mercedes Lackey (1991). “By the Sword”, p.158, Penguin

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• I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

  Ben Marcus

  Children, Parent, Way

  "This week in fiction:Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.

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• I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

  Ezra Miller

  Art, Before I Die

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• "Comic book" has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call Die Hard "a comic-book movie," when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

  Frank Miller

  Book, Mean, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 5, 2001.

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• Religions die slowly.

  Franz Marc

  "The 'Savages' of Germany". Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Almanak, Munich, 1912.

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• The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

  N. T. Wright

  Book, Want, Live By

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• When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

  Roger Zelazny

  Wombats, Company

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• In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Jesus, Christ, New Testament

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• Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Struggle, Love Is, Want

  Oriana Fallaci (1980). “A man”, Simon & Schuster

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• I think there's a lot of elements that go into making a really awesome horror film and that's like putting together like a real good group of people that you love to watch them either live or die.

  Elisha

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Milan. What a beautiful place to die.

  John Carradine

  Beautiful, Milan, Beautiful Places

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

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• As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Missing

  "Discworld's Terry Pratchett On Death And Deciding". Interview With Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 11, 2011.

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• I'm feelin' electric tonight
  Cruising down the coast goin' 'bout 99
  Got my bad baby by my heavenly side
  I know if I go, I'll die happy tonight

  Lana Del Rey

  Baby, Tonight, Sides

  Song: Summertime Sadness, 2012

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• Better die standing than live kneeling.

  Pericles

  Kneeling, Standing

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