Death Quotes - Page 41

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?

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.

And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.

The attitude of mourning is a faithless attitude, an ignorant attitude. The more we know, the more fully we shall trust, for we shall feel with utter certainty that we and our dead are alike in the hands of perfect Power and perfect Wisdom, directed by perfect Love.

It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

I am against the death penalty.

Never live life in fear of death

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

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