Life And Death Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Death, Fall, Thinking

  Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

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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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• An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either.

  Randall Jarrell

  Writing, Doe, Saying Nothing

  "Ten Books", The Southern Review (p. 9), 1935.

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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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• 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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• Women have always been healers. Cultural myths from around the world describe a time when only women knew the secrets of life and death, and therefore they alone could practice the magical art of healing... The emergence of women whose consciousness blends with the ancient themes of healing is the single most promising event in health care.

  Jeanne Achterberg

  Art, Healing, Practice

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• Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human...a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.

  Vali Myers

  Heart, Dark, Animal

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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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• How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

  Shirley Bassey

  Tears, World, Strange

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• We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

  Halford Luccock

  People, Interesting, Moral

  "Religion: Go Ye and Relax?". content.time.com. April 20, 1953.

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• According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Speech, Tongue

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.564

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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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• 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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• Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

  Thomas Huxley

  Spiritual, Rome, Civilization

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.61

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• There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

  Alexander Pope

  Stars, War, Fall

  Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.244

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