“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
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“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.”
“Love has no age, no limit and no death.”
“Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.”
“We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.”
“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.”
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.”
“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”
“One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.”
“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.”
“The fear of death comes from limited awareness.”
“I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?”
“Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.”
“Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.”
“Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”
“Everybody is entertained to death.”
“Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.”
“Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.”
“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”
“People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!”
“The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.”
“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”