Death Quotes - Page 52

To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.

Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white. We will come down at night to these resounding beaches And the long gentle thunder of the sea, Here for a single hour in the wide starlight We shall be happy, for the dead are free.

There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day.

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

If I die, what a beautiful death.

We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.

During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

Why do dying people never shed tears?

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.