The Quotations Book of Life and Death

quotes have been tagged as life-and-death: Charles Bukowski: 'Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing. tags: books, life-and-death, philosophy.
Table of contents

Like, not even the Rock would dare to whistle at her, if you know what I mean. It was very warm--the sun felt strange on my skin now that I was so used to the rain--and the meadow was still lovely, but it was just background now. It didn't stand out. I had a new definition of beauty. I fumbled for my wallet.

Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I just followed through—relieved that the choice was made.

Browse By Tag

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be! Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

Life And Death Sayings and Life And Death Quotes | Wise Old Sayings

I would fain do something to make the idea of life to us to be more than friends in the sense of that sublime possibility. And so we will believe in our even a hundred times more worthy of their attention. When the commonplace 'We must all die' transforms itself suddenly into the acute consciousness 'I must die--and soon,' then death grapples us, and his fingers are cruel; afterwards, he may come to fold us in his arms as our mother did, and our last moment of dim earthly discerning may be like the first.

This is not solely because he is "weak," "sinful" and anxious for a "good time. The humanist attitude is that the struggle must continue and that death is the price of life. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

Contribute to This Page

It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary. But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will we trust go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

Albert Camus "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter. Arthur Miller "Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. Death and dying provide a meeting point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and practical benefit. Sogyal Rinpoche is particularly well placed to facilitate this meeting; having been born and brought up in the Tibetan tradition, he has received instructions from some of our greatest Lamas.

Life And Death Sayings and Quotes

Having also benefited from a modern education and lived and worked in the West, he has become well acquainted with Western ways of thought. According to Daniel Goleman , Rinpoche was already planning to write a book on living and dying in the late s.

Then, in in Nepal, Rinpoche met Andrew Harvey and invited him to help on the project. Hundreds of hours of Sogyal Rinpoche's teachings on audio-cassettes were gathered and transcribed. More was done in London, but the most intense period of all began in Paris, at the end of Later, while Rinpoche was leading retreats in Germany and Australia, he would send through long faxes to Gaffney and Harvey full of corrections, changes and new paragraphs.

Share this article

He was testing the key chapters, for example on the Nature of Mind, the practice of meditation, compassion, Guru Yoga and Dzogchen , by teaching them directly, again and again, all over the world in retreats and courses. Some parts were corrected and re-written twenty five times. The final changes were composed in July , during the three-month retreat which Rinpoche conducted at his European retreat centre, Lerab Ling , in France.

The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying. (Complete)

Of the process, Patrick Gaffney said,. If it was difficult, it was because it presented so many challenges. One of the greatest was how to find Rinpoche's voice, that intimate, warm, clear and humorous voice that is so supremely eloquent when communicating live. Rinpoche is a master of the great oral tradition of Tibet, stretching back over centuries, the hallmark of which is the power to transmit directly, from heart to heart, mind to mind, in the medium of words, something which is beyond words.


  • Die Moderne und ihre Vornamen: Eine Einladung in die Kultursoziologie (German Edition)?
  • Life And Death Quotes ( quotes);
  • Explore Topics.
  • Navigation menu.