Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn’t death of things, then there wouldn’t be any life to celebrate.
There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling.
Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
I don’t fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.
I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they’re not trying to escape.
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.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Diabetes can be successfully prevented and managed by a healthy lifestyle. When not managed, it can lead to severe organ damage and death.
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
When I’m lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
A samurai should always be prepared for death – whether his own or someone else’s.
