Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it.

Dalai Lama

I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

Dalai Lama

If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.

Dalai Lama

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

Dalai Lama

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

As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly existence. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end. Yet death is unpredictable: We do not know when or how it will take place. So it is only sensible to take certain precautions before it actually happens.

Dalai Lama

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.

In this district, we have a history of seeking the death penalty in appropriate cases, ... It's not something we shy away from, but we're still a ways away from that decision.

Ted Kulongoski

I hope I never have to use it. But if I do, it may make the difference between life and death for me and my family.

I have to be his voice. Knowing the whys, the details of his last minutes won't make his death any easier, but I will have an answer. I keep on because I have to keep speaking for him.

Colleen Atwood

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

Richard Preston

If you want to survive Ebola, you need to be young. If you're in your late 30s, the death rate is about 80 percent, and if you're over 45, then the death rate goes up to about 90 percent.

If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral

If you want to rape kids, you want to kill them? Death it's an eye for an eye for children.

I just thank the Lord because death did not come, ... The living things were spared.

Manolo Blahnik

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Anthony Mann

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.

If you get three people like (Greene), the death penalty's gone.

If you die homeless, your death goes unnoticed, just like your life. This is a way for us to notice.

Phil Klay

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

Shawn Amos

In the world of celebrity, there is one universal law: if there's a scandal or death, Al Sharpton will be there.

Jack Lemmon

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

Jack Lemmon

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Jack Kornfield

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?

J. D. Salinger

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?

J. G. Ballard

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

J. D. Salinger

If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

Issey Miyake

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Isabelle Eberhardt

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

Jack Kerouac

I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.

Jack Horkheimer

Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition I can do little else in my present position.

Jack Benny

Gags die, humor doesn't.