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Quotes About Life

Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.
~ Frederick Lenz
Don't be afraid to take a chance, to jump. Because death will always swallow you up anyway. Death is a friend; it encourages us to become aware, to become free.
~ Frederick Lenz
The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.
~ Frederick Lenz
Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream.
~ Frederick Lenz
To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.
~ Freya Stark
Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).
~ Gautama Buddha
All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
~ George Eliot
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
~ George Eliot
The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.
~ George Herbert
When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]
~ George Herbert
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
~ George Herbert
The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
~ George Orwell
The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.
~ George R. R. Martin
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
~ George Santayana
As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.
~ George Saunders
My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
~ George Washington
We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.
~ Gerald Brenan
Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.
~ Geraldine Jewsbury
One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.
~ Glen Duncan
I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.
~ Grace Slick
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?
~ Greta Garbo