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.
Muriel Spark On Death
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 On Death
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 On Life, Death And Dying
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 On Immortality
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 Watts On The Dead
Alan Wilson Watts (January 06, 1915 – November 16, 1973) Man is the only creature who hordes his dead.
Tao Writer On Death
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 On Death
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 On Death
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 On Death
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 On Death
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 On Death
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 On Death
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 On Death
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 On Death
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 On The End Of Days
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 …
Audre Lorde On Death
Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) We all have to die at least once. Making that death useful would be winning for me. I wasn’t supposed to exist anyway, not in any meaningful way in this fucked-up whiteboys’ world. I want desperately to live, and I’m ready to fight for that living …
Jack Kerouac On Death
Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a …
Rainer Maria Rilke On Death
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) The great secret of death, and perhaps its deepest connection with us, is this: that, in taking from us a being we have loved and venerated, death does not wound us without, at the same time, lifting us toward a more perfect understanding of this …
Terry Pratchett On Death
Terry Pratchett (April 28, 1948 – March 12, 2015) No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life is only the …
Seneca On Life And Death
Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD65) If nature should demand of us that which she has previously entrusted to us, we will also say to her: “Take back a better mind than you gave: I seek no way of escape nor flee: I have voluntarily improved for you what you gave me without my knowledge; …
Frank Ostaseski On Birth-Death
Frank Ostaseski In Japanese Zen, the term shoji translates as “birth-death.” There is no separation between life and death other than a small hyphen, a thin line that connects the two. We cannot be truly alive without maintaining an awareness of death. Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. …
Steve Jobs On Death
Steve 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 very likely …
Roger Angell On Death
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, …
Benjamin Franklin On Death
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.
