Life And Death Quotes - Page 19

• I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

  JoAnn Ross

  Romance, Plot, Suspense

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• Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

  Ilana Mercer

  Queens, Hands, Pennsylvania

  "Mobocracy vs. Monarchy". www.wnd.com. May 20, 2011.

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• Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Facts, No Fear, Realizing

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• Shamanism has a long history and exists to this day because of its ties to universal emotions such as happiness, sorrow, resentment, and love. It can function as an outlet during struggles with life and death and the burdens of society's absurdities including the divide between rich and poor. It opens up a way to confront reality.

  Hyon Gyon

  Struggle, Reality, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he can never tell.

  Hope Mirrlees

  Horse, Memories, Men

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.247, F+W Media, Inc.

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• The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Sky, Meditation, Mind

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• ...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.

  Zhuangzi

  Unity, Body, Share

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• There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Birth Life And Death, Suffering

  The Characters "Of Mankind" (1688) (translation by Henri Van Laun)

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• If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mean, Son, Perfect

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• My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

  Christian Scriver

  Way, Helping, God Help Me

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems, Or, Invisible Things Understood by Things that are Made”, p.145

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• I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, East, West

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• A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing it. However, kata are not some kind of beautiful competitive dance, but a grand martial art of self-defense - which determines life and death.

  Kenwa Mabuni

  Beautiful, Art, Fighting

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• Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Death, Men

  "Bios and Mythos".

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• I'm weary of conjectures, - this must end 'em.
  Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life,
  My bane and antidote, are both before me:
  This in a moment brings me to an end;
  But this informs me I shall never die.
  The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
  At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
  The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
  Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
  But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
  Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
  The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Crush, Stars

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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• I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

  George Orwell

  Life, Differences, Long

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body--and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands--that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Hands, Issues, Miracle

  Frederick William Robertson (1861). “Sermons”, p.44

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• An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

  Eric Hoffer

  Realization, Flow, Eternity

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

  Spiros Zodhiates

  Life, Real, Perspective

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• Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Karma, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.

  Barbara Lee

  Humanity, Survival, Pandemics

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• In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, Evil, Sorrow

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.104, Advaita Ashrama

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• Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Opportunity, Passing Away, World

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.273, Canongate Books

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• Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death.

  Don Ed Hardy

  Tattoo, Issues, People

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• I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.

  Ross Macdonald

  Writing, Needs, Rope

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• Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Giving, Tragedy, Too Much

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