Life And Death Quotes - Page 26

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Perfect, Decision

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• Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.

  Joan Jett

  Disappointment, Different, Albums

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• You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Positive, Happiness

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Radio is the death and life of Africa.

  George Ayittey

  Radio

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• When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

  Greg Iles

  Differences, Risk, Enemy

  Greg Iles (2011). “The Devil's Punchbowl: A Novel”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work

  Whitfield Diffie

  People, Bars, World

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• Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is all like a monkey grasping at the moon reflected in the water.

  Shoitsu Omatsu

  Life, Moon, Night

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• Love knows no difference between life and death
  The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Love, Differences, Giving

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• A woman who sets her rights, the supposed right to privacy or right over her own body, above the life of another human being is saying that a woman's rights are superior to human rights. She has put herself above the human race, she has made herself the executor over life and death. Is that a woman's right?

  Janet E. Smith

  Rights, Race, Catholic

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• Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

  Pope John Paul II

  Order, Abortion, Catholic

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• I know I have been portrayed as a general looking for war. Many other headlines speak of that. That's what people say. But I understand the importance of peace because I saw the horrors of war. That's how I see it. I lost my best friends in battles.. and I had to make decisions of life and death, of others and myself.

  Ariel Sharon

  Friendship, War, People

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• We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'

  Albert Camus

  Real, Past, Risk

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.97, Vintage

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• Every human being is called to solidarity in a world battling between life and death

  Ignacio Ellacuria

  World, Solidarity, Humans

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• For death and life, in ceaseless strife,
  Beat wild on this world's shore,
  And all our calm is in that balm—
  Not lost but gone before.

  Caroline Norton

  Gone, World, Calm

  "Not Lost but Gone Before" (ca. 1850). Burton E. Stevenson, Home Book of Quotations, and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations trace "Not lost, but gone before" and similar expressions to Seneca, St. Cyprian, and Matthew Henry.

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• For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

  Haddon W. Robinson

  Matter, Moral, Clarity

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• My art takes birth when my loneliness becomes my companion... when I take lives and deaths much personally and work when others play. When I meet myself and find that the truth of life is not the dream of tender age ... but the fire within me that creates the work of art.

  Jeet Aulakh

  Dream, Art, Loneliness

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• There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.

  Albert Einstein

  Moving, Destiny, Flow

  Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.

  David Lynch

  Artist, Suffering, Stories

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• The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.

  Edward Tufte

  Beautiful, Important, Traffic

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• Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune?

  Zhuangzi

  Loss, Night, Men

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• Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.

  Kgalema Motlanthe

  Leadership, Lying, Eye

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• As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Heart, Fullness Of Life, Giving

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• If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Mind, Natural, Metaphysical

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, 1990.

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• Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

  Eileen Wilks

  Doe, Life Death, Either Or

  Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.283, Penguin

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• Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taoism, Substance, Realizing

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