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Death Quotes by Laozi
- Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus…
- Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and…
- Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and…
- Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when…
- A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they…
- When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you…
- Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and…
- If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?
- If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
- We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death…
- People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.
- All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.
- Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.
- Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
- When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft…
- The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing left to hold…
- Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts,…
- Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.
- All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
- Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in…
- Life is going forth; death is returning home.
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