Buddhism Death And Dying Quotes

#1. We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.

Alison Gopnik

#2. No sane person fears nothingness.

Robert A.F. Thurman

#3. Inner-calm will lead you on a beautiful journey back to your original self; the perfect, beautiful you.

Bryant McGill

#4. When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.

Trey Parker

#5. Our ancestors pay the price for who we are

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. The afterlife is mostly a dream state where you confront the good and evil within you. The text repeatedly explains that the images the deceased sees and the sounds one hears are hallucinations created by one's own thoughts.

Paul Lowe

#7. In fact, no form of death places a greater burden on society than suicide, for the act of suicide is the way a person seeks to resolve his alienation from a cooperative society.

Shinmon Aoki

#8. The mind is a useful tool but not a very good friend.

Stephen Levine

#9. So I do fear death in the sense that I find the prospect of dying pretty scary. But I no longer fear that I will one day be annihilated and cease to exist.

Brad Warner

#10. The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.

Allan Lokos

#11. A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

H.L. Mencken

#12. Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.

Shinmon Aoki

#13. The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.

Allan Lokos

#14. The problem with tying yourself to a cripple is that it doesn't make you stronger, it only makes you slower.

Billy Roper

#15. Acceptance doesn't mean masochistic pessimism, but joyful support of and participation in the great cosmic drama.

Nathan J. Johnson

#16. Achala, worrying and scheming about your next life, before you have even completed this one, is not a good practice. Rinpoche

Daniel Prokop

#17. Death is [ ... ] the blackboard on which life is written.

Osho