Death Changes Us Quotes

#1. Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.)

Candy Lightner

#2. For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds
is instant death of that which was before.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#3. Suffering often changes our ambitions. Before his conversion, Saul cared primarily about his reputation and perfecting his religiosity. The transformed Paul left reputation behind and instead boasted in weakness, longing to suffer and share in Christ's death

Anonymous

#4. Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true, but I do think it probably causes some changes, some evolution in the way a person works. But on a day-by-day basis, I just still enjoy doing what I'm doing.

Stephen King

#5. Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Lucretius

#6. Death rarely changes how we feel about someone. Heightens it, more often than not.

Jane Harper

#7. Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.

Arnaud Desjardins

#8. That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.

Dean Koontz

#9. It's brainless to assume that making changes to your window's view will give a new perspective

Death Cab For Cutie

#10. Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.

Michael Marshall Smith

#11. When the world changes, you have to adapt and change with it. It's not just death and taxes that we can always count on in life ... add 'change' to that mix. No matter what, tomorrow will always be a little bit different than today ...

Christopher Jones

#12. Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

#13. The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

Ram Dass

#14. Death changes everyone ... It changes the way you think, the way you feel, and the way you live your life. Sometimes it makes you thankful for what you have, but more often than not, it makes you regret what you've lost.

Tara Sivec

#15. We can't escape ourselves, Tag. Here, there, half-way across the world, or in a psych ward in Salt Lake City. I'm Moses and you're Tag. And that part never changes. So either we figure it out here or we figure it out there. But we still gotta deal. And death won't change that.

Amy Harmon

#16. When I got out of the hospital, it was one of those classic things - you're looking death in the eye, and it changes you. I thought, I ought to go back on the road.

Robert Hunter

#17. I'm of the opinion that secrets kept in life should be honored in death, that nothing changes simply because you're not there to defend yourself.

Dave Eggers

#18. Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure.

Archibald Marwizi

#19. Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces.

Kahlil Gibran

#20. These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. Even the most painful changes we can experience such as divorce, accidents, illness or death offer us powerful lessons.

Robin S. Sharma

#22. Stagnation is death. With love, accept and welcome changes.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Margaret Atwood

#24. it's being branded a failure that causes the most pain; when 'failure' changes from being a verb to becoming a noun.

Anup Kochhar

#25. You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Truth changes as men change, and when truth becomes stable men will become dead, and the insect and the fire and the flood will become truth.

Charles Bukowski

#27. Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.

Frederick Lenz

#28. When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying.

Pierce Brosnan

#29. Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came.

Wendell Berry

#30. There is just as much beauty in birth as there is in death, and it changes our lives just the same. They both add things to us and take things away. Pg. 155 Undone

Brooke Taylor

#31. Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence.
What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

Joseph Conrad

#32. Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

Dean Koontz

#33. But the best I've known
Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown
About the winds of the world, and fades from brains
Of living men, and dies.

Rupert Brooke

#34. Life changes and molds you with every breath. Death has a way of forcing you to re-evaluate decisions, and fate has a way of shoving your face into everything you've lost.

Stevie J. Cole

#35. Major changes in life are just the way the universe is aligning a better future for you.

Linda Alfiori

#36. Death Changes ones life in more ways than anyone could imagine! T.B

Tawana Beecham

#37. If you believe it's life or death for the kids, it changes everything you do.

Martin Haberman

#38. Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Oliver Goldsmith

#39. Diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the meaning of expressions; and confession, which usually works salvation, sometimes, with a slight change, inches toward death.

Pope Clement XIII

#40. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do."
And facing death changes that?
"Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.

Mitch Albom

#41. Aside from certain rare cancers, it is not possible to detect any sudden changes in the death rates for any of the major cancers that could be credited to chemotherapy. Whether any of the common cancers can be cured by chemotherapy has yet to be established.

John Cairns

#42. Death changes things. It changes how we think about people; it changes the living and it changes the dead.

Martin Sixsmith