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  • Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

  • Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

    Death   Fear   Knows  
    'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1
  • 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.

    Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com
  • Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.

  • I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

  • The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of that property are considered by them as two opposites, they treat, e.g. , blindness and sight, death and life, in the same way as heat and cold. Therefore they say, without any qualification, non-existence does not require any agent, an agent is required when something is produced.

    Sight   Opposites   Two  
    Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1023, Moses Maimonides
  • Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

  • The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death

  • Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

    "Wisdom's folly No.18" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2005.
  • There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.

  • Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.

    "The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1993.
  • Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

    Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.13, Macmillan
  • I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.

  • We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them.

    Past   Thinking   Long  
    Christopher Pike (2001). “Witch”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
  • The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.

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

    Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.20, Vintage
  • Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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

    Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.12, Penguin
  • Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

    "'On Death and Dying' Author, Kubler-Ross, Dies at 78" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.
  • Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed the hunger for meaning in your life. Play at the serious questions of life and death.

    Writing   Editors   Play  
  • So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

    "How I got happy and stayed grumpy" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.
  • I am a 21st century man. I don’t believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death.

    Believe   Men   Sweat  
  • ...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.

  • 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.

    "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.
  • For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

  • Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

  • There seemed to be nothing in Mao that might be called religious feeling; his judgments were reached, I believe, on the basis of reason and necessity. Because of this I think he has probably on the whole been a moderating influence in the Communist movement where life and death are concerned.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Death is just a change in lifestyles.

    Life   Change   Death  
    Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.290, Anchor
  • Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to love its vulnerability, asking for care, attention, guidance, and support. Life and death are connected by vulnerability. The newborn child and the dying elder both remind us of the preciousness of our lives. Let's not forget the preciousness and vulnerability of life during the times we are powerful, successful, and popular.

    Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.3, Harper Collins
  • 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.

    "Lost Highway". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, March 6, 1997.
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