Life And Death Quotes - Page 22

• In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Buddhist, Mirrors

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Men, Form, Dread

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853). “Life Among the Lowly”, p.350

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• The tongue has the power of life and death.

  Solomon

  Tongue

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• If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fall, Expression, Two

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.67, Advaita Ashrama

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• Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.

  Rosario Dawson

  Interesting, Attention, Mortality

  "Rosario Dawson Talks TRANCE, Working with Danny Boyle, Playing a Female at the Center of a Male Dominated Story & a Nude Scene with James McAvoy". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. March 30, 2013.

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• I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.

  Jack Kirby

  Knowing, Done, Matter

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.

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• I love the psychological thriller piece of it. Because we are trapped in this isolated environment with a deadly virus, what's really interesting is that everyone's darkness comes out because we've got these life-and-death stakes going on. And then, there're these interesting relationships going on, but we can't quite deal with the relationship right now because we've got something better to do, which is survive.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Interesting, Darkness, Viruses

  Source: collider.com

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• The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

  Jack Johnson

  Fighting, Passing, Crude

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• Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

  Jonathan Swift

  Giving, Physicians, Judgment

  Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

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• Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a closed mind. ...the basic issue is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the infringement of freedom in what amounts to a life and death question.

  Phil Crane

  Cancer, Dark, Years

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• If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

  Eleanor Clift

  Cutting, Thinking, Finding The One

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• Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Blessing, Men

  Erich Fromm (1963). “War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness”

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• ...healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing is not about anything else but being itself. Nothing separate, no edges, nothing to limit healing. Entering, in moments, the realm of pure being, the gateless gate swings open- beyond life and death, our original face shines back at us.

  Stephen Levine

  Healing, Loving Life, Swings

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• A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. 'Who is sufficient for these things?' What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Destiny, Men, Soul

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• It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.

  Frank Smythe

  Travel, Nature, Yellow

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• First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Night, Avid, Water

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.47, Macmillan

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• We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

  Seneca the Younger

  Past, Looking Forward

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• One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

  George Orwell

  Alive, Want, Virtue

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

  Euripides

  Glory, Dies

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.152, University of Chicago Press

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• Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Events, Forget

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.18, Ballantine Books

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• Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?

  James Branch Cabell

  Obstacles, Youth, Known

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.173, eBookIt.com

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• The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of that property are considered by them as two opposites, they treat, e.g. , blindness and sight, death and life, in the same way as heat and cold. Therefore they say, without any qualification, non-existence does not require any agent, an agent is required when something is produced.

  Maimonides

  Sight, Opposites, Two

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1023, Moses Maimonides

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• Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

  Ronald Perelman

  Dark, Soldier, Pressure

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There are times when only America can make the difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression, between life death. We cannot save all the world's children but we can save many of them.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, War, Differences

  William J. Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, articles.baltimoresun.com. August 30, 1996.

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• Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve­ments. These alone count in life.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Unions, Separation, Achieve

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. II, 1938.

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