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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
Sep 10, 2025
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!
If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.
If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.
There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark from which to choose, the choice is always a difficult navigation and the storm's wingspan immeasurable as the depths and the horizon, but the sea holds you in its mighty hand your life is a sea-blue tale of love and death.
The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.
Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?
All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.
All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.
A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
In the midst of death life persists.
In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.
There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky.
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death."
In one horrible moment the last piece of the prophecy became clear. So bid him take care, bid him look where he leaps, As life may be death and death life again reaps. He had to leap, and by his death, the others would live. That was it. That was what Sandwich had been trying to say all along, and by now he believed in Sandwich. He put on a final burst of speed, just like the coach taught him in track. He gave everything he had. In the last few steps before the canyon he felt a sharp pain in the back of his leg, and then the ground gave way under his feet. Gregor the Overlander leaped.
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.
This is business: they don't care about your lyrics; The better you sell, the better future for their children. Controversy sells, so they support conflict, Makes more progress, means more profit. An artist gets killed, they say they're 'so sorry,' Meanwhile, they tell you the date of his next project. What a life...death made them more profit: Record companies get paid for your drama.
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
Life hath more awe than death.
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
Every way that we try to make our kids good that isn’t rooted in the good news of the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ is a damnable, crushing, despair-breedin g, Pharisee-produc ing law.
No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.
You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death. This life is the only time and place we can prepare in, and we can only truly prepare through spiritual practice: This is the inescapable message of the natural bardo of this life.
Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to a right relationship with God through the life, death, and resurrection of his beloved Son. This is the Good News, the gospel of Grace
I think death is not simply the last few moments of life, death is something that runs throughout the whole of life. Each of our moments is not only the possibility of affirmation, but it's also we're saying farewell at each moment to something.
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.