Quotes About Death

WE think that if we just meditated enough or jogged or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that's death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self-contained and comfortable, is some kind of death.

Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each day - is the key to developing inner steadiness and calm.

The futility of samsara. Samsara is preferring death to life. It comes from always trying to create safety zones. We get stuck here because we cling to a funny little identity that gives us some kind of security, painful though it may be. The fourth reminder is to remember the futility of this strategy.

Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn't last forever.

There is a teaching on the three kinds of awakening: awakening from the dream of ordinary sleep, awakening at death from the dream of life, and awakening into full enlightenment from the dream of delusion.

Disappointment, embarrassment, and all the places where we cannot feel good are a sort of death... It's actually a sign of health that when we meet the place we are about to die, we feel fear and trembling.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

You're nobody 'til somebody kills you.

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it's going to do it visually or physically, I'll take either way.

I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.

A billion people died on the news tonight.

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.