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If you are conscious that you are mortal, would have time to crib? would you have time to fight with somebody? would you have time to do some rubbish with your life? If you are conscious that you are mortal, you would do nothing other than what is absolutely need for you & everybody around youLife Time Perspective
The beginning of all beings is veiled, beings manifest in the middle, and unmanifest again on death. Then, why lament this truth?Life Philosophy Truth Wisdom
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.Life
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.Life Man
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.Life Humor
I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.Life Short Fear Humor
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.Life Secret
I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.Life Short Words
If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be rightLife Humor
That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!Life Past Literature
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.Life Short
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.Life Nature
Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you... When you have it... And when you don'tLife Love
There is no such a thing as Death, Death is a fiction of the unaware, there is just Life, Life and Life moving from one dimension to anotherLife Philosophy
Unless you embrace death, you cannot live, if you try to avoid death, all that will happen to you is that you will end up avoiding life.Life
The wise look upon childhood, youth, old age, life, and death as passing dramas; hence everything entertains them.Life
We have passed through death & rebirth so many times, why be afraid of death? It comes to free us. You shouldn't wish for death, but be comforted in the realization that it is our escape from so many troubles; it is a pension after hard work of lifeLife Comfort
That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentenceLife Book
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.Short
Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is- nobody wants reality.Short Truth Reality
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.Short Fear
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.Short Loss
Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.Short
Today you are; tomorrow you are not... One by one we slip away. Others will come and we shall goShort
Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer.Short
Death is not a punishment; it is an awakening; it is a releaseShort
Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.Short Humor
No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.Short
Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.Short Belief
But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.Short
'What do we say to the Lord of Death?' 'Not today.'Short Humor
Sleep, those little slices of death - how I loathe them.Short
The death of a beloved is an amputation.Short
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.Short
Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.Short Memory
You know the problem with heroes and saints? ... They always end up dead.Short Problems
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I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.Love Romantic
There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.Love
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.Love
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.Love Loss
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.Love Short
Love outlasts death and the ravages of time. All those that I have loved before, in this or other lifetimes, I love the same nowLove Time
Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy's ear. “I love you.” She wasn't sure he could hear her-but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.Love
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.Love
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.Love Short
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.Love Humor
Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.Love Poetry
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.Love
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.Love
You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?Love
You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.Love
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It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.Funny
if you are going to make people around you joyful and relieved only when you die, that's not a good way to live.Funny Life Philosophy Success
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.Funny Life Short
Death is not a negative thing, death is the only thing that has added value to your life. If you were here forever, you would be unbearableFunny Life
People think teenage is problem, middle age is problem, old age is problem. What is not the problem? Only death.Funny Witty Problems
Don't be dead now. That time will come. Now is the time to be aliveFunny Short Time
Before you and I came here on this planet, a countless number of people have walked on this planet, where are they? All topsoil. You will also be topsoil unless someone buries you real deep fearing you may rise from the deadFunny Truth Witty Wisdom
A whole lot of people are carrying grave faces as if they are practicing the final posture. Time we work towards life, not death. Because when it comes to death, everybody is a Natural Star.Funny Life Humor People
The moment you are born, you have a death sentence upon you. When, where and how is the only question. Your death is confirmed.Funny Truth Witty Wisdom
You will see Shiva always sitting in the graveyard to tell you it is your mortality which makes you, If want to know what is the nature of your existence, You really want to know where you came from, where you will go only when it sinks into you, all this drama, one day it will end but right now you think only others appear in obituary columns & you read emFunny Existence
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.Inspirational Fear
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.Inspirational Life Music
In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.Inspirational Life
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Inspirational Philosophy Poetry
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.Inspirational Life Comfort
Jamie: You know what I figured out today? Landon: What? Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.Inspirational Life
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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword... a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.Integrity Man
Dying Gracefully: The way people are dying in western countries is really a horrible way to die, Let us learn to die gracefully. It is okay if you die two years early, you die peacefully & gracefully, that's more important.
Death is the last thing you do in your life, shouldn't you do it gracefully?
That which is born must die, and that which is dead must be born again. Therefore, you shouldn't lament about the unavoidableBhagavad gita
He is truly a yogi who, on this earth and up to the very time of death, is able to master every impulse of desire and wrath. He is a happy manDesire Bhagavad gita
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.Truth Fear Darkness
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.Fear Humor Suffering
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.Fear
The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.Failure Humor
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.Hate Life Love Philosophy
I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.Truth Wisdom
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.Philosophy Humor Evil
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.Change Life
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!Freedom Life Peace
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.Morality Suffering
We must learnt to accept death as a part of life, we are not wishing death, but when it comes, let us learn to go through it gracefully.Acceptance
If your doctor told you that you are going to die tomorrow, that you can't live for more then 24 hours, you will see you will transform yourself so rapidly; minute to minute you will change. So don't wait for your doctor to tell you something horrible (change by yourself)Change Life Philosophy Truth
If you are not willing to be vulnerable, you are not willing to transform. Whatever does not transform is as good as dead.Change Philosophy Wisdom
If you live joyfully until the last moment, you don't have to worry about death - that will also be a joyful process.Happiness Joy
Eating, sleeping, reproducing, dying - every other species does it effortlessly. Why do human beings make such a fuss about it?Humor Being human
Material things cannot be owned by anybody, for at death they must be left behind & given to others. We are only allowed the use of things. It shows a lack of wisdom to be 'possessed' by material things.Wisdom
To be an emperor of the whole earth is not the highest goal man can aim for, because he has to leave it all at death; but to possess cosmic consciousness, oneness with GodGod Consciousness Earth
Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrowPain Body
To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is nothing more to worry aboutFear
Birth and death are doors through which you pass from one dream to another. All you are doing is going back and forth between this gross dream world and the finer astral dream world; between these two chambers of dream nightmares and dream pleasures
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.Life Judgement
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.Truth
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."Time
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
The meaning of life is that it stops.Life
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...Humor Memory
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.Faith
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.Spirituality
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.Poetry Earth
People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.Memory
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"Life
life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesisLife Poetry Short
Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.Life Short Humor
Sometimes dead is better
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.Life Philosophy Religion Problems
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.God Life
Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.Life Ignorance Thinking Man
People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's no telling how long you will have them near.Life Relationship People
Fairness does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.Life
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.Short Humor People
Death: "There are better things in the world than alcohol, Albert." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.Humor
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.Life Time
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.Humor
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.Life Fear
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.Heart Love Humanity Feeling
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.Truth Humor
The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.Life Opportunity
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?Life
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.Life Opportunity
Death should take me while I am in the mood.Short Humor
We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.Change Life Love
the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.Time People
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.Friendship Time
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.
Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that.Hate Humor
You never know how much time you'll have.Short Time
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.Life Short
A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.Heart Love Short
Religion is the Opium because it puts people to sleep. Sleep is comfortable, nothing wrong with it, Death is even more comfortable (but there is no progress in it)Religion Comfort
Life & death can be handled gracefully. If you remind yourself all the time that, "I am mortal, I'm mortal, I'm mortal, I'm mortal", you will see, mind will uncomplicate itselfLife Mind
You are an undertaker. Your business is with the dead. All the time your life is about what is over. Everything that you are is about what is already over. So because you are an undertaker you will live in a certain jumpy condition.Life Past
Every day, every moment if you remind yourself this is a brief life, "I'm mortal, one day I will end." just do this for 2 days & see, you will become something truly fantastic within yourselfLife Truth Acceptance Reality
If you're just conscious of your mortality you will naturally become spiritual. You will not become spiritual by thinking about God. You will become unrealistic, hallucinatory.God Spirituality Consciousness
Birth and death are just passages, not of life but of time.Life Short Time
If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your graveCourage Life Short Truth
The very body that you carry right now, it has been millions of bodies in the past.. the soil going through every form of lifeTruth Body
This body is just a loan from Mother Earth. One day you have to repay the loan.Short Earth Body
At the end of your life it's only about what you have created. Whatever you have gathered, you can't take it with youLife Truth
There is no such thing as perfection in life. There is only one thing that happens perfectly, and that is death
The dead can be preserved, life cannot be preserved, it has to be expended as intensely as possibleLife Short
An absolutely inevitable aspect of life is Death, but it still remains largely unaddressed within oneself in most Humans. It is the natural consequence of Death that makes life sparkle brightly. We are alive just for a while but Dead for a very long timeLife
If you die of excitement, it's all right. Such a magnificent creation and you die of boredom - that's a crimeCreation
The body is a loan from this planet. If you have done something wonderful out of this, when the time comes to pay back, you will pay joyfullyTime Truth Body
If we cannot celebrate death as we celebrate birth, we do not know life.Life Short
Your property, your education, your beliefs, everything will drop when you drop this body. The only thing that goes beyond this body is your awarenessEducation Belief Body
The unfortunate reality is that most people will know peace only with death- "Rest in Peace". It is time we do something about it in lifeLife Reality People
It is only when you become aware of death that you want to know what life is about. Once you come to terms with death and you are conscious that you will die, you will want to make every moment of your life as beautiful as possible.Life
This body is a loan you have taken from the planet. If I give you $1 million today, & in 10 years' time you have made it into $100 million, when I come looking for you, you'd welcome me & give me back my million. If you've done something truly wonderful out of yourself, when the moment to pay back the loan (body) comes, you'd give back joyfullyBody
From your birth till the last moment, you are walking in a straight line, straight towards death, you may look this way at the mountains, you may look that way at the lake, you may look at relationships, you may fall in love, you may suffer, you may enjoy, but essentially every moment of your life, you are walking straight towards your graveRelationship
If you have found something beyond the physical, death is not an issue. If all you know is only physical, then it is a big issue because it is the end of everything that you know.Fear
If death comes to us, we will do everything possible to save ourselves but if it goes beyond that, let us learn to die gracefully. Let's not fight with it endlessly. Just stretching it one more month and one more month does not make any sense.
Only when you remind yourself of your death, you will turn spiritual. If you think of God, fantasies will come in your mind. No spirituality will comeGod Mind Spirituality
Only when you become conscious, only when you are reminded of your own death, you will become a seeker. When you think God, you are not a seeker. You are just looking for more foolish nonsense in your life. Only when you think death, you turn spiritual, you seek.God
Just as a person forsakes worn-out clothes and wears new clothes, the soul leaves the worn-out body at the time of death and enters a new bodySoul Body Bhagavad gita
Spiritual success lies in constantly attuning yourself with the cosmic mind, and in maintaining your peace and poise no matter what irremediable events occur in your life, such as the death of dear ones, or other sorrowful happeningsLife Success Spirituality
Pain is a prod to remembrance. The way of escape is through wisdom. The tragedy of death is unreal; those who shudder at it are like an ignorant actor who dies of fright on the stage when nothing more has been fired at him than a blank cartridgeWisdom Pain Ignorance
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dyingChange Liberation
We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneousFear Pain
The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome changeChange
The dance of life and death, prosperity and failure, have no reality except as dreams of GodDreams God Life Short
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.Control
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.Beauty Poetry Women
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.Politics Fear
This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.Courage Choice Responsibility
If you want me again, look for me under your boot soles.Poetry
'There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.'
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.Heart Hope Sadness
You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.Life Love Romance
If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.Humor
I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.Humor
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.Hope Peace Soul
With every breath, we are one step closer to the grave. Now is the time to explore a dimension beyond body and mindTime
However dear something may be to you, including your own body and life, you must know how to let it go gracefully when the time comes.Life Time Body
Death is a cosmic joke. If you get the joke, falling on the other side will be wonderfulShort
A human being never realizes the nature of who he or she is unless mortality is hanging in their faceHumanity
I am conscious of every moment that passes by, and I know how many more moments are there - they are not limitless, but limited. I want you to count your own, how many more you have.Time
Death is the only certainty in life. If you lived your life well, death is not at all a bad thingLife Short
Why do you permit yourself to remain entrapped in the cycles of births and deaths and their untold miseries? How many lifetimes will you helplessly go through all this? Don't waste your timeTime Suffering
I am the blessed child of sweet Immortality, sent here to play the drama of births and deaths, but always remembering my deathless Self.
Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.Suffering
From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death.Short Joy People
At physical death, man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus physical death is astral birth.Consciousness
I laugh at death. I am ready anytime. There is nothing to it. Eternal life is mine.Life Short
When a dear one dies, instead of grieving unreasonably, realize that he has gone on to a higher plane at the will of God, and that God knows what is best for him. Rejoice that he is freeFreedom God
Death must be good, otherwise, God would not have ordained that it happen to everyone. Why live in fear of it?God Fear
If one dies of natural causes or is spiritually advanced, the body of sensations simply drops off, and when the consciousness reawakens on another plane it has all the sensations of the body without any physical form.Spirituality Body
Awareness is all mind, just as it is in dreams. This is not difficult to picture. In death one merely sloughs off his gross physical body, which is only a lower form of mind and the cause of all manner of troubles for the soul.Soul Mind Body
If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life?God Life
People also fear death because they have been in this cage of flesh so long that they feel timid about leaving its security. But it is foolish to be afraid. Just think, no more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork livingFear Body People
We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after deathPersonality
Life and death are but a passing from dream to dream. They are only thoughts: you are dreaming you are alive, and you are dreaming you are deadLife
You know that old saying. Once you go dead, no one's better in bed.Humor
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usualLife
The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.Humor Loss
When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.
"I was waiting for the longest time," she said. "I thought you forgot." "It is hard to forget," I said, "when there is such an empty space when you are gone."
Even in the grave, all is not lost.Short
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.Life Short
The thoughts that predominate at the time of death can bring you either salvation — if your supreme desire is for God — or rebirth. If you are filled with worldly desires, those thoughts impinge themselves on the subtle body and bring the soul back into another earthly incarnationDesire God Thought
Those who spend their earthly sojourns in emotionally reacting to the endless dream pictures of life continue to behold turbulent dream pictures of death and new incarnations.Emotions Earth
Those who are afraid of death cannot know their true soul nature.Short Fear Soul
Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.Humor
I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how are you doing? When are you coming for me? I'll be ready."Writer
my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.Life Loss
Death is the means by which dream matter changes back into the consciousness of God, releasing the soul within it for the next step in its progressive return journey to GodChange God Soul Consciousness
To escape death, she'd become death.Short
"That is - your friend?" "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
I went down to the river, I sat down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.Poetry
It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.
It is better to die struggling than to abandon your efforts while there is still a possibility of accomplishing something more; for even when death comes, your struggles must soon be renewed in another life 
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. 
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try to live so that our death brings no pleasure to the world. 
The coward lives over and over again a mental picture of pain and death. The valiant experience only the final death, quickly and without pain 
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for. 
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. 
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. 
The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. 
If you are conscious that you are mortal, would have time to crib? would you have time to fight with somebody? would you have time to do some rubbish with your life? If you are conscious that you are mortal, you would do nothing other than what is absolutely need for you & everybody around you 
The beginning of all beings is veiled, beings manifest in the middle, and unmanifest again on death. Then, why lament this truth? 
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. 
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. 
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life. 
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities. 
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. 
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. 
That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them! 
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. 
Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you... When you have it... And when you don't 
There is no such a thing as Death, Death is a fiction of the unaware, there is just Life, Life and Life moving from one dimension to another 
Your life is ticking away. It's time to focus on what is truly worthwhile. 
Unless you embrace death, you cannot live, if you try to avoid death, all that will happen to you is that you will end up avoiding life. 
The wise look upon childhood, youth, old age, life, and death as passing dramas; hence everything entertains them. 
We have passed through death & rebirth so many times, why be afraid of death? It comes to free us. You shouldn't wish for death, but be comforted in the realization that it is our escape from so many troubles; it is a pension after hard work of life 
That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence 
Only the dead have seen the end of war. 
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. 
Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather. 
Today you are; tomorrow you are not... One by one we slip away. Others will come and we shall go 
Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. 
Death is not a punishment; it is an awakening; it is a release 
No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily. 
But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years. 
Sleep, those little slices of death - how I loathe them. 
The death of a beloved is an amputation. 
So wise so young, they say, do never live long. 
I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved. 
There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse. 
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. 
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect. 
Love outlasts death and the ravages of time. All those that I have loved before, in this or other lifetimes, I love the same now 
Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy's ear. “I love you.” She wasn't sure he could hear her-but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words. 
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness. 
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. 
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. 
You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble? 
You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast. 
It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month. 
if you are going to make people around you joyful and relieved only when you die, that's not a good way to live. 
Death is not a negative thing, death is the only thing that has added value to your life. If you were here forever, you would be unbearable 
People think teenage is problem, middle age is problem, old age is problem. What is not the problem? Only death. 
Before you and I came here on this planet, a countless number of people have walked on this planet, where are they? All topsoil. You will also be topsoil unless someone buries you real deep fearing you may rise from the dead 
A whole lot of people are carrying grave faces as if they are practicing the final posture. Time we work towards life, not death. Because when it comes to death, everybody is a Natural Star. 
The moment you are born, you have a death sentence upon you. When, where and how is the only question. Your death is confirmed. 
Most people go about their lives as if death is not going to happen to them 
You will see Shiva always sitting in the graveyard to tell you it is your mortality which makes you, If want to know what is the nature of your existence, You really want to know where you came from, where you will go only when it sinks into you, all this drama, one day it will end but right now you think only others appear in obituary columns & you read em 
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. 
Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all. 
Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination. 
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. 
In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished. 
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. 
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted. 
If you go after what's easy the next thing will be sleep and then death. 
Jamie: You know what I figured out today? Landon: What? Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel. 
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword... a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
Dying Gracefully: The way people are dying in western countries is really a horrible way to die, Let us learn to die gracefully. It is okay if you die two years early, you die peacefully & gracefully, that's more important.
Death is the last thing you do in your life, shouldn't you do it gracefully?
That which is born must die, and that which is dead must be born again. Therefore, you shouldn't lament about the unavoidable
He is truly a yogi who, on this earth and up to the very time of death, is able to master every impulse of desire and wrath. He is a happy man
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
We must learnt to accept death as a part of life, we are not wishing death, but when it comes, let us learn to go through it gracefully.
If your doctor told you that you are going to die tomorrow, that you can't live for more then 24 hours, you will see you will transform yourself so rapidly; minute to minute you will change. So don't wait for your doctor to tell you something horrible (change by yourself)
If you are not willing to be vulnerable, you are not willing to transform. Whatever does not transform is as good as dead.
If you live joyfully until the last moment, you don't have to worry about death - that will also be a joyful process.
Eating, sleeping, reproducing, dying - every other species does it effortlessly. Why do human beings make such a fuss about it?
Material things cannot be owned by anybody, for at death they must be left behind & given to others. We are only allowed the use of things. It shows a lack of wisdom to be 'possessed' by material things.
To be an emperor of the whole earth is not the highest goal man can aim for, because he has to leave it all at death; but to possess cosmic consciousness, oneness with God
Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow
To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is nothing more to worry about
Birth and death are doors through which you pass from one dream to another. All you are doing is going back and forth between this gross dream world and the finer astral dream world; between these two chambers of dream nightmares and dream pleasures
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
Sometimes dead is better
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.
People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's no telling how long you will have them near.
Fairness does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
Death: "There are better things in the world than alcohol, Albert." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
There is no escape-we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.
Belief is Death
Religion is the Opium because it puts people to sleep. Sleep is comfortable, nothing wrong with it, Death is even more comfortable (but there is no progress in it)
Life & death can be handled gracefully. If you remind yourself all the time that, "I am mortal, I'm mortal, I'm mortal, I'm mortal", you will see, mind will uncomplicate itself
You are an undertaker. Your business is with the dead. All the time your life is about what is over. Everything that you are is about what is already over. So because you are an undertaker you will live in a certain jumpy condition.
Every day, every moment if you remind yourself this is a brief life, "I'm mortal, one day I will end." just do this for 2 days & see, you will become something truly fantastic within yourself
If you're just conscious of your mortality you will naturally become spiritual. You will not become spiritual by thinking about God. You will become unrealistic, hallucinatory.
If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave
The very body that you carry right now, it has been millions of bodies in the past.. the soil going through every form of life
Only a person who has lived totally can die gracefully
At the end of your life it's only about what you have created. Whatever you have gathered, you can't take it with you
There is no such thing as perfection in life. There is only one thing that happens perfectly, and that is death
The dead can be preserved, life cannot be preserved, it has to be expended as intensely as possible
An absolutely inevitable aspect of life is Death, but it still remains largely unaddressed within oneself in most Humans. It is the natural consequence of Death that makes life sparkle brightly. We are alive just for a while but Dead for a very long time
If you die of excitement, it's all right. Such a magnificent creation and you die of boredom - that's a crime
The body is a loan from this planet. If you have done something wonderful out of this, when the time comes to pay back, you will pay joyfully
Your property, your education, your beliefs, everything will drop when you drop this body. The only thing that goes beyond this body is your awareness
Only a person who is willing to die can live totally
The unfortunate reality is that most people will know peace only with death- "Rest in Peace". It is time we do something about it in life
It is only when you become aware of death that you want to know what life is about. Once you come to terms with death and you are conscious that you will die, you will want to make every moment of your life as beautiful as possible.
This body is a loan you have taken from the planet. If I give you $1 million today, & in 10 years' time you have made it into $100 million, when I come looking for you, you'd welcome me & give me back my million. If you've done something truly wonderful out of yourself, when the moment to pay back the loan (body) comes, you'd give back joyfully
From your birth till the last moment, you are walking in a straight line, straight towards death, you may look this way at the mountains, you may look that way at the lake, you may look at relationships, you may fall in love, you may suffer, you may enjoy, but essentially every moment of your life, you are walking straight towards your grave
If you have found something beyond the physical, death is not an issue. If all you know is only physical, then it is a big issue because it is the end of everything that you know.
If death comes to us, we will do everything possible to save ourselves but if it goes beyond that, let us learn to die gracefully. Let's not fight with it endlessly. Just stretching it one more month and one more month does not make any sense.
Only when you remind yourself of your death, you will turn spiritual. If you think of God, fantasies will come in your mind. No spirituality will come
Only when you become conscious, only when you are reminded of your own death, you will become a seeker. When you think God, you are not a seeker. You are just looking for more foolish nonsense in your life. Only when you think death, you turn spiritual, you seek.
Just as a person forsakes worn-out clothes and wears new clothes, the soul leaves the worn-out body at the time of death and enters a new body
Spiritual success lies in constantly attuning yourself with the cosmic mind, and in maintaining your peace and poise no matter what irremediable events occur in your life, such as the death of dear ones, or other sorrowful happenings
Pain is a prod to remembrance. The way of escape is through wisdom. The tragedy of death is unreal; those who shudder at it are like an ignorant actor who dies of fright on the stage when nothing more has been fired at him than a blank cartridge
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying
We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneous
The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change
The dance of life and death, prosperity and failure, have no reality except as dreams of God
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.
This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.
If you want me again, look for me under your boot soles.
'There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.'
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.
If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.
I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
With every breath, we are one step closer to the grave. Now is the time to explore a dimension beyond body and mind
However dear something may be to you, including your own body and life, you must know how to let it go gracefully when the time comes.
Death is a cosmic joke. If you get the joke, falling on the other side will be wonderful
A human being never realizes the nature of who he or she is unless mortality is hanging in their face
I am conscious of every moment that passes by, and I know how many more moments are there - they are not limitless, but limited. I want you to count your own, how many more you have.
Death is the only certainty in life. If you lived your life well, death is not at all a bad thing
Why do you permit yourself to remain entrapped in the cycles of births and deaths and their untold miseries? How many lifetimes will you helplessly go through all this? Don't waste your time
I am the blessed child of sweet Immortality, sent here to play the drama of births and deaths, but always remembering my deathless Self.
Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.
At physical death, man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus physical death is astral birth.
When a dear one dies, instead of grieving unreasonably, realize that he has gone on to a higher plane at the will of God, and that God knows what is best for him. Rejoice that he is free
Death must be good, otherwise, God would not have ordained that it happen to everyone. Why live in fear of it?
If one dies of natural causes or is spiritually advanced, the body of sensations simply drops off, and when the consciousness reawakens on another plane it has all the sensations of the body without any physical form.
Awareness is all mind, just as it is in dreams. This is not difficult to picture. In death one merely sloughs off his gross physical body, which is only a lower form of mind and the cause of all manner of troubles for the soul.
If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life?
People also fear death because they have been in this cage of flesh so long that they feel timid about leaving its security. But it is foolish to be afraid. Just think, no more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living
We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death
Life and death are but a passing from dream to dream. They are only thoughts: you are dreaming you are alive, and you are dreaming you are dead
You know that old saying. Once you go dead, no one's better in bed.
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
"You'll stay with me?" "Until the very end"
The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.
When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.
"I was waiting for the longest time," she said. "I thought you forgot." "It is hard to forget," I said, "when there is such an empty space when you are gone."
Even in the grave, all is not lost.
Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
The thoughts that predominate at the time of death can bring you either salvation — if your supreme desire is for God — or rebirth. If you are filled with worldly desires, those thoughts impinge themselves on the subtle body and bring the soul back into another earthly incarnation
Those who spend their earthly sojourns in emotionally reacting to the endless dream pictures of life continue to behold turbulent dream pictures of death and new incarnations.
Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.
I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how are you doing? When are you coming for me? I'll be ready."
Death is the means by which dream matter changes back into the consciousness of God, releasing the soul within it for the next step in its progressive return journey to God
To escape death, she'd become death.
"That is - your friend?" "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
I went down to the river, I sat down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.
It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.