Life And Death Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• 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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• The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.

  Erin Hunter

  Lying, Loss, Night

  Erin Hunter (2012). “Warriors: Omen of the Stars #6: The Last Hope”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that “All abilities come from one mind” sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Warrior, Attachment, Mind

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.73, Xist Publishing

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• Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Mean, Civilization, Choices

  "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.

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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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• 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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• [Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the loss of the Word preached more than the loss of peace and trade? Is it the removal of the ark that troubles us? Again, do we attend to the Word with reverential devotion? When the judge is giving the charge on the bench, all attend. When the Word is preached, the great God is giving us his charge. Do we listen to it as to a matter of life and death? This is a good sign that we love the Word.

  Thomas Watson

  Heart, Loss, Giving

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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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• Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed the hunger for meaning in your life. Play at the serious questions of life and death.

  Donald Murray

  Writing, Editors, Play

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

  Alexander McQueen

  Sadness, Evil, Good And Evil

  "Alexander McQueen’s 'Savage Beauty' At Metropolitan Museum Of Art (PHOTOS)" by Samantha Critchell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

  Jean Cocteau

  Death, Ugly Things, Dying

  "Postambule". "La Fin du Potomac". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1939.

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• Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

  Hugh Nibley

  Struggle, Assumption, Competitiveness

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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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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• Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

  L. Frank Baum

  Breathing, Blue, Feels

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• To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.

  John Bunyan

  Risk, Fear Of Death, Everlasting

  John Bunyan (1851). “The pilgrim's progress. With a life of Bunyan by J.M. Wilson, and notes abridged from T. Scott”

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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sympathy, Death, Depressing

  Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

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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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