Clear Quote by Jeanette Lee

“Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's? A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.”

— Idries Shah

the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his…

— Anonymous

“For him, conscious intent was a form of prediction, and prediction is only possible when the status quo has reason to assume it will…

— William S. Burroughs

“Man’s mortality is therefore a phenomenon that runs counter to his nature in that it opposes that for which he has been designed. This…

— Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

— Samuel Butler

“He imagined his past gone, along with his future. Death was the understanding of the immediate present: that there is finally nothing else.”

— Anne Rice

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take…

— Dogen

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

— Milan Kundera

He who lives, sooner or later, will die. He who does not is already dead and doesn't know it.

— Jean Paul Malfatti

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

— Gautama Buddha

“It was an unnatural time to be awake, ... It meant nothing good. He associated it with emergency, bereavement, conspiracy, flight; the sad skulk…

— Robert Harris