Death Quotes - Page 102

Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.

I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.

If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.

From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent on karmic forces, our state of mind at the time of death can influence the quality of our next rebirth. So at the moment of death, in spite of the great variety of karmas we have accumulated, if we make a special effort to generate a virtuous state of mind, we may strengthen and activate a virtuous karma, and so bring about a happy rebirth.

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.

Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.

Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place?

When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.