Death Quotes - Page 59

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result we clutch on to happiness and suffering as real, and in our unskillful and ignorant actions go on sowing the seeds of our next birth. Our actions keep us bound to the continuous cycle of worldly existence, to the endless round of birth and death. So everything is at risk in how we live now at this very moment: How we live now can cost us our entire future.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.

And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain, My friends, I'll say it clear, I'll state my case of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.

The best of times is now.

Only the young die good.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.

You can't find peace by avoiding life.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.