Apprenticeship Quote by Federico Garcia Lorca

“The aim of all life is death. Life is the apprenticeship that we serve preparing for death. Life is the fleeting spark of divinity…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Death is astute as a master. It's a process that teaches people aspects of themselves.

— Sebastian Lelio

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

— James F. Cooper

“Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, and of the…

— Marcus Aurelius

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact…

— Anonymous

“Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of…

— Marcus Aurelius

“It is without doubt a dark and complicated feeling, shared with firemen and soldiers and paramedics and emergency-room workers, that comes from knowing that…

— Tyler Dilts

“It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments - changing the linens, choosing a…

— Libba Bray

Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.

— Hongzhi Zhengjue

“Writing, painting, singing - it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in it's tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps…

— Ally Condie

“Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless…

— Marcus Aurelius

“This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass…

— Vladimir Nabokov