Death Quotes - Page 55

The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.

Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.

There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.

We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneous. Jesus showed himself in a physical form to his disciples after his death. Lahiri Mahasaya returned in the flesh the next day after he had entered mahasamadhi. They proved that they were not destroyed.

Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without it. Only the man who will not seek the awakening of wisdom must suffer the nightmares and delusive dreams of births and deaths and the fanciful miseries and limitations attending them. (gt)

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

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.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

Dying is a really hard way to learn about life.