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Death Quotes by Dalai Lama
- You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop…
- Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.
- The process of dying begins with the dissolution of the elements within the body. It has eight stages, beginning with the dissolution of the earth…
- There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from…
- Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you…
- From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent…
- As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly…
- We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like…
- We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.
- My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.
- The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment…
- Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.
- Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their…
- If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like…
- I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself.…
- To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case…
- Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it,…
- Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
- In our daily lives problems are bound to arise. The biggest problems in our lives are the ones that we inevitably have to face, like…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden