Quotes About Death

We had a joke, Langley and I: Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

And then there was that feeling one gets in a ride to a cemetery trailing a body in a coffin-an impatience with the dead, a longing to be back home where one could get on with the illusion that not death but daily life is the permanent condition.

It was innocents who died, not those born with the strength of no illusions.

um desejo de voltar para casa, onde podemos continuar com a ilusão de que é a vida diária, e não a morte, a condição permanente.

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

next time you say, «I have nothing in common with this person,» remember that you have a great deal in common: A few years from now - two years or seventy years, it doesn't make much difference - both of you will have become rotting corpses, then piles of dust, then nothing at all. This is a sobering and humbling realization that leaves little room for pride. [... ] In that sense , there is total equality between you and every other creature.

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash — one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone. To the egoic self, this is a depressing thought. To you, it is liberating.

Death is the stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to die before you die -- and find that there is no death.

Whenever death occurs, whenever a life form dissolves, God, the formless and unmanifested, shines through the opening left by the dissolving form.

Even such a seemingly trivial and normal thing as the compulsive need to be right in an argument and make the other person wrong- defending the mental position with which you have identified- is due to fear of death [of the ego].

In the proximity of death, the whole concept of ownership stands revealed as ultimately meaningless.

Tajna života jest »umrijeti prije smrti« - i otkriti kako smrt ne postoji.

That is why the most sacred thing in life is death.

Every portal is a portal of death, the death of the false self. When you go through it, you cease to derive your identity from your psychological, mind-made form. You then realize that death is an illusion, just as your identification with form was an illusion. The end of illusion — that's all that death is. It is painful only as long as you cling to illusion.

All of these things you will have to relinquish sooner or later. Perhaps you find it as yet hard to believe, and I am certainly not asking you to believe that your identity cannot be found in any of those things. You will know the truth of it for yourself. You will know it at the latest when you feel death approaching. Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" — and find that there is no death.

Cái Ch?t không ph?i là ??i cá»±c c?a ??i s?ng. ??i s?ng là má»™t cái gì không có ??i cá»±c. ??i cá»±c c?a cái ch?t là sá»± tái sinh. Còn ??i s?ng thì vô t?n.

The opposite of Life is not Death. The opposite of Death is Birth, Life has no opposite.

Death is the stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to 'die before you die' --and find that there is no death

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, medical treatment is the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer in the United States.

El secreto de la vida es "morir antes de morir" y descubrir que no hay muerte.

The weekend is not a good time for dying, you should never die anytime between Friday evening and Monday morning. Wednesday is the best day for dying except in some towns in Connecticut where even the barber shops are closed on Wednesday.

When everything was ready, the group fell silent. Ed and Bishop McKenna stared at each other silently. For Maurice Theriault arid the force that possessed him, the climactic moment had come. By the time it was finished, everyone in the living room of this modest farmhouse would be changed forever, and one person would have come close to death. Ed

A child dies two days after birth. Her parents cried out for help, and hundreds of friends cried out too. Might there still have been deliverance? Consider that the parents had been delivered from death and the Evil One and that the child belonged to God and would be with him. Those deliverances might not lessen the parents' and friends' grief, but they do mean that the community can grieve with hope.