Autumn Quote by Dogen

Regard this fleeting world like this: Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn, like bubbles on a fast-moving stream, like morning dewdrops evaporating on…

— Gautama Buddha

This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the…

— Rajneesh

“Elena didn’t look away—she’d rather face death than have her mind invaded, for what was that if not another form of crawling?”

— Nalini Singh

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the…

— Anonymous

One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge…

— Takenaka Shigekata

Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of…

— Stephen Mitchell

“A mind can be lost without its owner's death. A mind that no longer questions only fulfills the rudimentary aspects of its function.”

— Josh Hanagarne

Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life,…

— Seung Sahn

Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake…

— David Lynch

Whole idea is really intriguing to me. If you took snapshots of ourselves throughout the day, the way that our mind is twisting and…

— George Saunders

“What’s the difference what you watch?” Praeger shot back. “When that stream of hypnotic electrons starts winging into your brain, you’re finished, good-as-gone, condemned…

— Mark Helprin

When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long…

— Marcel Proust