Citas sobre Death

“Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about having not yet been born - yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal.”

“There is something about poverty that smells like death.”

“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”

“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”

“We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.”

“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.”

“I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.”

“In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.”

“The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.”

“The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.”

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

“I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.”

“My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a businessman and politician. I was actually raised by my grandfather.”

“One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.”

“Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.”

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.”

“Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.”

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”

“If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.”

“Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.”

“All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.”