Life And Death Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

  Etty Hillesum

  Meaningful, Acceptance, Next Week

  Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

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• It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Marriage, People, Stories

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.

  Teresa of Avila

  Death, Spring, Eye

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• Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but the mind. The bubbles of water and the flames of fire are nothing but the mind. The flowers of the spring and the moon of the autumn are nothing but the mind. Confusions and dangers are nothing but the mind.

  Dogen

  Dream, Spring, Flower

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• The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.

  Octavio Paz

  Regret, Omission, Confusion

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.54, Grove Press

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• I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Mean, Samurai

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

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• There are always those Gossip Girl walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus.

  Chace Crawford

  Girl, Eye, Talking

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2009.

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• If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.

  Richard Louv

  War, Kids, Emotional

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• In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

  Barbara Olson

  Law, Political, Mind

  Barbara Olson (2003). “The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

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• The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

  William C. Brown

  Art, Real, Night

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• The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Race, Flames, Essence

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• Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

  John Ortberg

  Art, Jesus, Hate

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• We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block.

  Stephanie Mills

  Block, Responsibility, Cells

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• When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Existence

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• When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Meditating

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• The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe.

  John Harricharan

  Grief, Butterfly, Grieving

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• The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Writing, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

  George Friedman

  War, Matter, Transformation

  George Friedman (2011). “The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going”, p.225, Anchor

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• Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

  Laurel Lea

  Attitude, Depends

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• It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Sight, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.272, Harvard University Press

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• I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Childhood, Desire

  "Hugh Hefner dead: The Playboy founder in his own words". www.abc.net.au. September 28, 2017.

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