Life And Death Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Heart, Self

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Every fear is fear of death.

  Wilhelm Stekel

  Fear Of Death, Life Death

  Wilhelm Stekel (1999). “Conditions of Nervous Anxiety and Their Treatment”, p.377, Psychology Press

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• the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

  Melanie Klein

  Anxiety, Instinct, Activity

  Melanie Klein (2002). “Envy and Gratitude”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• God is an exalted man. Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith... that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Father, Men, People

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• It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Done

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• Life and death and rebirth live within me.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Rebirth, Death And Rebirth

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Jun 16, 2016

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• Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to love its vulnerability, asking for care, attention, guidance, and support. Life and death are connected by vulnerability. The newborn child and the dying elder both remind us of the preciousness of our lives. Let's not forget the preciousness and vulnerability of life during the times we are powerful, successful, and popular.

  Henri Nouwen

  Powerful, Children, Mean

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. ... What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal - all the pleasures of life, and then death.

  Gilda Radner

  Crazy, Cheesy, Littles

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life and death. In the long glare of day, the snows descend Upon that Mountain; none beholds them there, Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun, Or the sunbeams dart through them.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sight, Long, Snow

  1816 'Mont Blanc'.

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• Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

  Albert Camus

  Evil, Unity, Suffering

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.24, Vintage

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• For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept

  Sigmund Brouwer

  Giving, Thieves, Hope And Love

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• The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of today’s and the confidence in tomorrow’s love is also part of today’s. And when one dies, the memory lives in the other, and is warm and breathing. And when both die - I almost believe, rationalist though I am - that somewhere it remains, indestructible and eternal, enriching all of the universe by the mere fact that once it existed.

  Isaac Asimov

  Memories, Believe, Love Is

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

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• When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.

  Diane Ackerman

  Flames, Effort, Awkward

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• If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

  Dean Smith

  Life, Motivational, Stress

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• Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.

  Ted Turner

  Life Is Like, Want, Economy

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• Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

  Samuel Butler

  Memories, Remember, Forget

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.83, The Floating Press

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• Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.

  John Piper

  Passion, Opposites, Unity

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

  Voltaire

  Spiritual, Moving, Men

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• This is no time to make new enemies.

  Voltaire

  Life, Death, Insanity

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• The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

  Edward Young

  Death, Peace, Nature

  Edward Young (1823). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem”, p.19

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• Thomas Jefferson survives.

  John Adams

  Life, Death, Insanity

  Quoted in Susan Boylston Adams Clark, Letter to Abigail Louisa Smith Adams Johnson, 9 July 1826. In fact, Jefferson had died a few hours earlier on this, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Eliza Quincy, in her 1861 memoirs, wrote that the last words Adams spoke distinctly were "Thomas Jefferson"; the rest of the sentence, she noted, was inarticulate. See Jefferson 55

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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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• Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

  James Montgomery

  Bears, Scene

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.357

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• God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

  Louis Pasteur

  May, Stones, Littles

  "The Life of Pasteur" published by René Vallery-Radot, translated by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, (p. 114), 1902.

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