The truest philosophy, is not to long for anything in particular, but to accept everything as it comes, and find out the reason of it coming. — Marie Corelli
Sri Krishna There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded …
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) ...I believe I shall, in some shape or another, always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.
Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65) You ask where you will lie after your death? Where lie the souls unborn?
Naguib Mahfouz (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) She told him what had kept her away was Death. But he rejected that excuse—for Death, he said, can never come between lovers.
Steve Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in …
Bantu Stephen Biko (December 18, 1946 – September 12, 1977) It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.
Steve Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is …
Françoise Giroud (September 21, 1916 – January 19, 2003) To live several lives, you have to die several deaths.
Siddhārtha Gautama (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400) All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from suffering.
Jean de La Fontaine (July 08, 1621 – April 13, 1695) Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Hermann Hesse (July 02, 1877 – August 09, 1962) When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 05, 1889 – October 11, 1963) Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
Roger Angell (September 19, 1920 -) All the dead from wars and natural events and school shootings and street crimes and domestic crimes that each of us has once again escaped and felt terrible about and plan to go and leave wreaths or paper flowers at the site of. There’s never anything new about death, …
Christopher Eric Hitchens (April 13, 1949 – December 15, 2011) I personally want to ‘do’ death in the active and not the passive and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) There is something in the pang of change — More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
Albert Camus (November 07, 1913 – January 04, 1960) What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.
Marie Corelli (May 01, 1855 – April 21, 1924) There is no death. What we think of as death is merely one of life's greatest transitions.
Adyashanti (October 26, 1962 -) Death is nothing more than a change of form. But only someone who really knows who they are knows that. And only someone who knows that can actually live life.
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (February 01, 1918 – April 13, 2006) If I had life to live over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Without an ever-present sense …
Naguib Mahfouz (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) She told him what had kept her away was Death. But he rejected that excuse—for Death, he said, can never come between lovers.
Emily Levine (October 23, 1944 - February 3, 2019) I love being in sync with the cyclical rhythms of the universe. That’s what’s so extraordinary about life — it’s a cycle of generation, degeneration, regeneration. “I” am just a collection of particles that is arranged into this pattern, then will decompose and be available, all …
Olga Jacoby (August 15, 1874 – May 5, 1913) We always fear the unknown. I am not a coward and do not fear death, which to me means nothing more than sleep, but I cannot become resigned to leave this beautiful world with all the treasures it holds for me and for everyone who knows …
Alan Wilson Watts (January 06, 1915 – November 16, 1973) Man is the only creature who hordes his dead.
Tao Writer (April 17, 1948 -) Life was never inevitable. It happened. However, death is inevitable for everything that lives. If enlightenment is the absolute acceptance of the inevitable, there is no need to fear death. It is part of the cycle of life. Were you afraid to be born?
Charles Simic (May 09, 1938 -) The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think …
Marcel Proust (July10, 1871 – November 18, 1922) I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it — our life — hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, …
John Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) Each person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time.
James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will …
Marie Corelli (May 01, 1855 – April 21, 1924) There is no death. What we think of as death is merely one of life's greatest transitions. Life’s Greatest Transition
Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face …
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.
Ludwig van Beethoven (December 16, 1770–March 26, 1827) I joyfully hasten to meet Death. If he comes before I have had the opportunity of developing all my artistic powers, then, notwithstanding my cruel fate, he will come too early for me, and I should wish for him at a more distant period; but even then …
Marge Piercy (March 31, 1936 -) Almost always with cats, the end comes creeping over the two of you— she stops eating, his back legs no longer support him, she leans to your hand and purrs but cannot rise—sometimes a whimper of pain although they are stoic. They see death clearly though hooded eyes. Then …
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. —Jiddu Krishnamurti
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses... We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. — John F. Kennedy
...If one looks long enough at almost anything, looks with absolute attention at a flower, a stone, the bark of a tree, grass, snow, a cloud, something like revelation takes place. — May Sarton
The most we can do is to write — intelligently, creatively, evocatively — about what it is like living in the world at this time. — Oliver Sacks
The truest philosophy, is not to long for anything in particular, but to accept everything as it comes, and find out the reason of it coming. — Marie Corelli
