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Death Quotes by Frederick Lenz
- Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal:
- Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no…
- The I Ching tells us that for every ending there is a new beginning. In other words, what appears like a transition isn't really a…
- Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a…
- I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.
- Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all…
- They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.
- The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have…
- The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and…
- Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk…
- Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's…
- Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering,…
- Letting go is the hardest thing. Everybody is so afraid. They're so afraid of eternity. They're so afraid of life. They're so afraid of what's…
- You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.
- Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid of the complexities…
- You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual…
- Meditation is not for everybody. When you meditate you become conscious. Most people don't want to be too conscious because they are afraid of awareness,…
- When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are…
- When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will…
- This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with…
- The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this,…
- Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.
- There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that…
- Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.
- Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light,…
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