Quotes About Death

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What is the biggest wonder of life?' Without hesitation, Yudhishthira famously answers, 'Hundreds and thousands of living beings meet death at every moment, yet the foolish man thinks himself deathless and does not prepare for death. This is the biggest wonder of life.

When death knocks on your door, your life will be focused, and naturally, you turn inward, because outward is of no use anymore..

The whole idea behind fashioning such an image – that embodies life and death all at once – is to make the point that whatever you call divine is something that can never be logically understood. It can be experienced, but never grasped. There

Life and death live in me at once Never held one above the other When one stands far, life I offer In closeness, only death I deal In death of the limited Will the deathless be

lake and drop dead. Only Yudhishthira, the eldest of them, is left. Always the humble and

Samadhi is a state of equanimity where the intellect goes beyond its normal function of discrimination. This in turn loosens one from this physical body. A space between what is you and your body is created. Death means the physical body is completely lost. There is no contact with the physical body. Samadhi means that the physical body is intact, but the contact with the physical body has become very minimal.

The violence of the death is not determined by what happened to the body; it depends on what happened within that person.

If you understand there is nothing to lose, because anyway you came with nothing and there is nothing to lose, the fear of death will not be relevant.

death is a fiction created by ignorant people. Death is the creation of the unaware, because if you are aware, it is life, life and life alone—moving from one dimension of Existence to another.

Death is the creation of the unaware, because

When death comes knocking, all of a sudden, you will find this body does not mean anything. All your qualifications will not mean anything. Your husband, wife and children will not mean anything. Your fancy clothes will not mean anything. You will be hopeless. Like a vulture, I will wait for that moment, because, then, you will become willing. But if you are intelligent, if you have any sense in you, you will create that willingness right now.

When people feel insecure they want to drink and sleep, because sleep is just a small manifestation of death.

Hundreds and thousands of living beings meet death at every moment, yet the foolish man thinks himself deathless and does not prepare for death. This is the biggest wonder of life.

I actually believed that after living as fully as humanly possible, one should then die violently. I expected then as I still expect today

Yes, I have cherished my "demagogue" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America—then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.

This is why I say it's the ballot or the bullet. It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

Malcolm X looked at me hard. 'A writer is what I want, not an interpreter.' I tried to be a dispassionate chronicler. But he was the most electric personality I have ever met, and I still can't quite conceive him dead. It still feels to me as if he has just gone into some next chapter, to be written by historians. New York, 1965

Deep down, I actually believed that after living as fully as humanly possible, one should then die violently.

Todo lleva a creer que existe un cierto punto donde la vida y la muerte, lo real y lo imaginario, lo comunicable y lo incomunicable, lo alto y lo bajo cesan de ser percibidos contradictoriamente.

But he would give the Spainish no satisfaction. When they offered him a drink, he smashed the glass and ate the shards, preferring his own English blood to their sweet wine. He died soon after.

I remember that one Holy Week, the magazine I got every Thursday, Anteojito , came with a free poster depicting the Stations of the Cross. I burned the poster and flushed the ashes down the toilet to dispose of the evidence. The idea that I was supposed to pin this graphic depiction of torture and death on my wall seemed to me as obscene as if someone had suggested decorating my room with pictures of the inner workings of Auschwitz.

Desnudas de su corteza contempla las causas: los significados de las acciones, qué es el sufrimiento, qué es el placer, qué es la muerte, qué es la fama, quién es el culpable de tu propia falta de tiempo, cómo nadie es impedido por otro, que todo es suposición[482].

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.