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Quotes About Death

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.
~ Lyman Abbott
I'd rather lose her from my life, but know she was alive and well than lose her altogether to death.
~ Lynsay Sands
What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.
~ Madeleine Bunting
The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.
~ Margaret M. Lock
Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.
~ Marjane Satrapi
It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.
~ Martin Luther
In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.
~ Martin Luther
Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.
~ Mary Mapes Dodge
But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.
~ Mary Mapes Dodge
When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.
~ Frederick Lenz
Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.
~ Frederick Lenz
There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances
~ Frederick Lenz
Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.
~ Frederick Lenz
Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality
~ Frederick Lenz
Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.
~ Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing, all, and beyond all.
~ Frederick Lenz
There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.
~ Frederick William Robertson
One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Humans are just another form. You're another lifeform of energy. You think you're independent of life, and you can't be that way. You're causing death. You're causing a lot of death and it's your own. And we're trying to help you, but we came and we were killed by many of you.
~ John E. Mack