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Quotes About Awareness

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
~ Stanislav Grof
Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.
~ Richard Leakey
I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.
~ Gangaji
The death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize.
~ Frances Bean Cobain
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
~ Gautama Buddha
Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death.
~ Big Daddy Kane
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'
~ Tom Robbins
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
~ Samuel Butler
We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.
~ Courtney Summers
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
~ Pema Chodron
It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.
~ T. S. Eliot
Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.
~ Unknown
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
~ Gautama Buddha
The big change is the proximity to death.
~ Leonard Cohen
It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.
~ Ashley Judd
To not think of dying, is to not think of living.
~ Jann Arden
Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
~ Damien Hirst
Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.
~ Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.
~ Anne Sexton
I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
~ Paul McCartney
We live on the cusp of death Thinking it won't be us
~ Macklemore