Quotes tagged ‘Life And Death’

“It's about what happens when no one even bothers fighting anymore, when people don't even care about the truth, when all they care about is what sells, when everything, politics, the news, life and death, is all just entertainment.”

— Charlotte Stoudt, Gwen Verdon, Michelle Williams, imdb.com

“The FBI Academy is the toughest boot camp, hardest grad school rolled into one. It is not college. It is life and death.”

— Joshua Safran, Miranda Shaw, Aunjanue Ellis, imdb.com

“Life continues after death as long as you remember the warmth of another's smile, the gentleness of their touch, the meaning they brought to your life. In your remembrance of another, death cannot overtake life.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“Virtually all of us have benefited from our mother’s affection at the start of our lives. When someone is on their deathbed, if he or she is surrounded by loved ones they can pass away peacefully. From birth to death we all need affection.”

— Dalai Lama, twitter.com

“There is only one worthy goal for scientific exploration... piercing the tissue that separates life from death. Everything else, from the deep bottom of the sea to the top of the highest mountain on the farthest planet, is insignificant.”

— John Logan, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Harry Treadaway, imdb.com

“We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. Our lives are just shadows of that guiding principle. Say the wind blows. It can be a strong, violent wind or a gentle breeze. But eventually every kind of wind dies out and disappears. W…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“I'm not trying to die. I'm just waiting for death to come. Like sitting on a bench at the station, waiting for the train.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Whether you come to a place to live or to die, the things you do every day are about the same.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The concept of death was beyond his powers of imagination. And pain was something he wasn't aware of until he actually felt it.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and image a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here—me included—will have disappeared from the face of the earth and turned into ashes or dust.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“And it's as well, to do it while I'm alive to see to it myself — for I've often observed that if you leave your world's gear to the poor when you're dead, just for the good reason that you can't take it to the grave with you — it'll melt in a wonderful way through the hands of the 'secretaries' and…”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“What matters the death of one man in a million? Unless, indeed, it be a man whose life, like a torch uplifted in darkness, has enlightened and cheered the world — but the death of a mere fashionable 'swell', whose chief talent has been a trick of lying gracefully — who cares for such a one? Society…”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“All of us have to get out of life somehow one day — that's certain — but few of us have the chance of making such a triumphant exit.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“We have made such a mess of the world in the rest of our lives that preserving a portion of nature with our deaths seems like small recompense.”

— Richard Conniff, nytimes.com

“Oh, life was an ocean misery. There was no way to get out of the suffering except death. But he couldn't do that, not because he was a coward but because he had to take care of his family.”

— Ha Jin, amazon.com

“Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“I've never once thought about how I was going to die. I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”

— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com

“What more chilling commentary on the modern world could there be than that most people die unprepared for death, as they have lived, unprepared for life?”

— Sogyal Rinpoche, amazon.com