Life Death Quotes - Page 11

• Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

  William Mountford

  Death, Possibility, Sublimity

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.228

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• Life hath more awe than death.

  Philip James Bailey

  Life, Awe

  "Festus. Scene Wood and Water". Poem by Philip James Bailey, 1839.

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• Life is worth Living
  Through every grain of it,
  From the foundations
  To the last edge
  Of the cornerstone, death.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Lasts, Foundation

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Adventure, Men

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Without Pentecost the Christ-event - the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus - remains imprisoned in history as something to remember, think about and reflect on. The Spirit of Jesus comes to dwell within us, so that we can become living Christs here and now.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Thinking

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• When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

  Richard Harris

  Death, Men, Dying

  "Fictional character: Marcus Aurelius". "Gladiator", 2000.

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• Dying is a really hard way to learn about life.

  Michael Keaton

  Death, Dying, Way

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• Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

  William Shatner

  Death, Important, Dying

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• Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dream, Song, Sweet

  Charles Kingsley (1877). “Favorite Poems”, p.21

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• Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

  Muriel Spark

  Death, Life Is, Surprise

  Muriel Spark (2014). “Memento Mori”, p.94, New Directions Publishing

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

  George Orwell

  Life And Death, Alive, Want

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

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• All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

  John Donne

  Life And Death, Prison Life, Going Out

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.500

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• Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

  Sophocles

  Death, Drawing, Enough

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• They say that moving is one of the most stressful things in life. Death in the family is the second most stressful, and moving your dead spouse is the third.

  Kevin Nealon

  Stress, Moving, Things In Life

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• Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.

  Roberto Benigni

  Comedian, Actors, Proud

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• The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Forever, Suffering

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• [Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Death, Pain, Sorrow

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• What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Life, Song, Firsts

  "Méditations Poétiques". Book by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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• Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Life, Soul, Prison

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.344

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• The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.

  George Eliot

  Life, Heart, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.6, 谷月社

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• Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Life, Science, Law

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• Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

  Orrin Hatch

  Death, Punishment, Political

  "The Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations". Book by David Milsted, 1999.

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• If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

  Pythagoras

  Adversity, Light, Darkness

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• We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Attachment, Wish To Die

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• The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life?

  Jack Kornfield

  Death, Lying, Simple

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