Life And Death Quotes - Page 3

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that “All abilities come from one mind” sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.

As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues.

Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death. In social settings he was awkward and timid, but he overcame this and practice boldness in every part of his life because he saw its tremendous power, how it could literally enlarge a man(even one who, like Napoleon, was in fact conspicuously small).

The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death.

Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Every human being is called to solidarity in a world battling between life and death

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

[Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the loss of the Word preached more than the loss of peace and trade? Is it the removal of the ark that troubles us? Again, do we attend to the Word with reverential devotion? When the judge is giving the charge on the bench, all attend. When the Word is preached, the great God is giving us his charge. Do we listen to it as to a matter of life and death? This is a good sign that we love the Word.

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.

I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!