Quotes about death
death snares midst
Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us. Martin Luther
death angel journey
At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely.
death faith loneliness
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
death war halloween
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. Napoleon Bonaparte
death fighting might
If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead. Scott Caan
death dying oblivion
Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well. Tom Cruise
death somewhere-else paradise
Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now. Rajneesh
death heart serious
The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.
death zest waiting
Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?
death religious love-is
The religious man, the mystic, tries to explore the mystery of death. In exploring the mystery of death, he inevitably comes to know what life is, what love is. Those are not his goals. His goal is to penetrate death, because there seems to be nothing more mysterious than death. Love has some mystery because of death, and life also has some mystery because of death.
death children people
But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start getting infected by this constant fear all around. Everybody is afraid of death. People don't even want to talk about death.
death simple men
Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what life is, is never afraid of death; he welcomes death. Whenever death comes he hugs death, he embraces death, he welcomes death, he receives death as a guest. To the man who has not known what life is, death is an enemy; and to the man who knows what life is, death is the ultimate crescendo of life.
death fear-of-death loses
Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.
death journey men
These are only outer symptoms. Death is the transfer of the soul from one body to another body, or in cases when a man is fully awakened, from one body to the body of the whole universe. It is a great journey, but you cannot know it from the outside. From outside, only symptoms are available; and those symptoms have made people afraid.
death men people
There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.
death ignorance doors
Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already dead. It is also a crescendo of what we call life, although very few know what life is. They live, but they live in such ignorance that they never encounter their own life. And it is impossible for these people to know their own death, because death is the ultimate experience of this life, and the beginning experience of another. Death is the door between two lives; one is left behind, one is waiting ahead.
death people misunderstood
Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.
death real important
Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.
death running unrighteousness
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. Socrates
death wise men
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
death philosophy soul
The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
death wise blessing
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.
death wise fear
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
death believe fate
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
death heroic dies
To learn to die is an heroic work. Mercy Otis Warren
death people dying
Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are. Michael Moriarty
death dying live-it-up
I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.
death house mourning
The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited, have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a "house of mourning," I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory. Theodore L. Cuyler
death thinking laughing
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. Terry Pratchett
death tunnels light
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
death wisdom atheist
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
death shining shadow
Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
death effectiveness destroying
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. Margaret J. Wheatley