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Quotes About Death

In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.
~ Pablo Neruda
Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people — and kill them.
~ Unknown
Al caer en el charco, estaba casi muerto. La mano se hundió en el agua sucia y trató de asir algo, de detener algo, de impedir que algo se fuera. Luego, quedó inmóvil. Un hombre se acercó y pateó su cara dos veces. Se subieron a los coches y se fueron. Sobre el cadáver de Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, siguió lloviendo.
~ Unknown
El valor, qué es eso? Acaso tenerle más miedo al ridículo que a la muerte.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
a qué se dedica el muerto? —Se dedicaba al pedo ajeno. Era dueño de la concesión de la Modelo en el municipio. Pal velorio hubo cerveza gratis para todos.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Así es la muerte de cabrona, acaba con las vueltas, las disquisiciones, las opciones.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
La muerte era… Trató de encontrar la palabra. Insolente. La muerte era una pinche insolencia. Un descaro. Él era simplemente terco. Palabras sueltas. Ideas sencillas.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
La de la Revolución Mexicana es una historia en la que mucho se mata y mucho se muere, en la que la vida humana parece valer muy poco y la supervivencia es tan accidental y casual como la muerte. Avitia rescata las frases en un corrido terrible: 'Como saben que en México se mata y que a diario se muere por acá'.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
His vital signs were taken, an electrocardiogram... which revealed occasional ventricular premature contractions. An intern took his history... and then he was promptly... simply... forgotten to death.
~ Paddy Chayefsky
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings
~ Paddy Chayefsky
The moments of our life are not expendable, And the [possible] circumstances of death are beyond imagination. If you do not achieve an undaunted confident security now, What point is there in your being alive, O living creature?
~ Unknown
O, [you], with your mind far away, thinking that death will not come, Entranced by the pointless activities of this life, If you were to return empty-handed now, would not your [life's] purpose have been [utterly] confused? Recognise what it is that you truly need! It is a sacred teaching [for liberation]! So, should you not practise this divine [sacred] teaching, beginning from this very moment?
~ Unknown
death holds up an all-seeing mirror, 'the mirror of past actions', to our eyes, in which the consequences of all our negative and positive actions are clearly seen and there is a weighing of our past actions in the light of their consequences, the balance of which will determine the kind of existence or mental state we are being driven to enter.
~ Unknown
Again Master Padma said: Tsogyal, I have told this to everyone, but nobody listens. As soon as the Mara of Death catches hold of you, there is no chance for liberation. Those who do not practice the Dharma will regret this when approaching death. The years, months and days pass by without lingering even a second. This life runs out without pausing for even an hour or a minute, and then we die. The seasons continue, but your life finishes and doesn't wait.
~ Unknown
Although your mind lies beyond birth and death, this illusory body does die, so practice while remembering death […] The guru said: Human beings don't think of death. A man's life is like a pile of chaff or a feather on a mountain pass. The demon Lord of Death comes suddenly, like an avalanche or a storm. Disturbing emotions are like straw catching fire. Your life-span decreases like the shadows of the setting sun.
~ Unknown
Furthermore, if semen flows without any [blissful] sensation, And it is interspersed with quicksilver-like globules, the size of sesame seeds, It is said that one will die {imminently]
~ Unknown
Free from the impulse to avoid, cultivate or cling. all concepts of samsara and nirvana totally vanish into the expanse of nondual wakefulness, and you remain nakedly as nondual unity, the essence of great bliss. At that time, even if the Dharmaraja, the Lord of Death, puts his hook into you and takes you away, you will not feel fear or dread.
~ Unknown
paredes, viajar en el tiempo y, por supuesto, recordar el paso de su alma por el estado intermedio entre dos reencarnaciones, conocido como "Bardo". Se cree que esas experiencias le permitieron describir lo que sucede tras la muerte del cuerpo físico y crear el método de liberación del espíritu.
~ Unknown
Cold rage had him leaning closer, the pistol now a mere inch from his throat. "I served with them for a decade in Special Forces. You can't _begin_ to know what that means. Now they're dead and I want answers." "Try Ask.com
~ Pamela Clare
He wanted to tell her that if it were simply a matter of crossing the river Styx and trading places with Beau, he'd be gone in a heartbeat.
~ Pamela Clare
You live life wi' death on your heels. For your sake, lass, I promise to stay one step ahead.
~ Pamela Clare
Perhaps he was recalling the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who wrote in the nineteenth century: "When we are ascending the hill of life, death is not visible: it lies down at the bottom of the other side. But once we have crossed the top of the hill, death comes in view—death, which, until then, was known to us only by hearsay.")
~ Pamela Druckerman
Only a superstitious, melodramatic nerd would try to keep from being bored to death by scaring himself to death instead.
~ Unknown
The road is long and the end is death, he thought, remembering all the times his mother had said that. If we're lucky.
~ Unknown