英语格言警句_Death_(D1)

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death

- James F. Bymes

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

(Oct. 1986)

- Elie Wiesel

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

- Bob Dylan

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually bee the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

- Steve Jobs

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

- Hafiz of Persia

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

- Thomas Moore

Lost terrible silent rades, we, who might have died, salute you.

- Richard Aldington

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after -- lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever e by such a bargain again.

- Louise Erdrich

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

- Abraham Lincoln

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

- Thomas Mann

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

- Mark Twain

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

- Florynce Kennedy

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.When Death claims the light of my brow,No flowers of life will cheer me: insteadYou may give me my roses now!

- Thomas F. Healey

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

Death can be more exciting than life.

- George Patton

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.

- Epicurus

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.

- Robert Fulghum

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

- Saul Alinsky

Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

- Toni Morrison

And now the end is nearAnd so I face the final curtain,My friends, I'll say it clear,I'll state my case of which I'm certain.I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highwayAnd more, much more than this, I did it my way.

- Paul Anka

To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them?

- William Shakespeare

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[W]e now know that the human animal is characterized by two great fears that other animals are protected from: the fear of life and the fear of death... Heidegger brought these fears to the center of his existential philosophy. He argued that the basic anxiety of [humanity] is anxiety about being-in-the-world, as well as anxiety of being-in-the-world. That is, both fear of death and fear of life, of experience and individuation.

- Ernest Becker

Do not pass by my epitaph, traveler.But having stopped, listen and learn, then go your way.There is no boat in Hades, no ferryman Charon,No caretaker Aiakos, no dog Cerberus.All we who are dead belowHave bee bones and ashes, but nothing else.I have spoken to you honestly, go on, traveler,Lest even while dead I seem loquacious to you.

- Roman Tombstone

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

- Ernest Becker

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overe it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.

- Ernest Becker

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and munions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

- John Muir

It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.

- Norbert Capek

My life closed twice before its close;    It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveil    A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive,    As these that twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven,    And all we need of hell.

- Emily Dickinson

What is—"Paradise"—Who live there—Are they "Farmers"—Do they "hoe"—Do they know that this is "Amherst"—And that I—am ing—too—

- Emily Dickinson

Love -- is anterior to Life --Posterior -- to Death -- Initial of Creation, andThe Exponent of Earth --

- Emily Dickinson

Death doubts it—Argues from the Ground—The Spirit turns awayJust laying off for evidenceAn Overcoat of Clay.

- Emily Dickinson

Bereavement in their death to feelWhom We have never seen -- A Vital Kinsmanship importOur Soul and theirs -- between --

- Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death --He kindly stopped for me --The Carriage held but just Ourselves --And Immortality.

- Emily Dickinson

Wastes of Lives—resown with ColorsBy Succeeding Springs—Death—unto itself—Exception—Is exempt from Change—

- Emily Dickinson

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

- Amelia Burr

People living deeply have no fear of death.

- Anais Nin

For everything there is a season,And a time for every matter under heaven:A time to be born, and a time to die;A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;A time to kill, and a time to heal;A time to break down, and a time to build up;A time to weep, and a time to laugh;A time to mourn, and a time to dance;A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;A time to seek, and a time to lose;A time to keep, and a time to throw away;A time to tear, and a time to sew;A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;A time to love, and a time to hate,A time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

- Ecclesiastes

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

- Isaac Asimov

In the world to e, I shall not be asked, "Why were you not Moses?" I shall be asked, "Why were you not Zusya?"

- Rabbi Zusya

Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to e.

in Little Women, chapter 36

- Louisa May Alcott

Death? Why this fuss about death.Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! ... Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman