Top 32 Quotes About Avoiding Death
#1. Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
#2. When the world started ending, everybody became a convert and wanted nothing more than to spout the virtues of whatever apocalyptic religion they had latched onto. I wasn't sure who, if any, of them were right, but my best bet for avoiding hell was avoiding death.
Amanda Hocking
#3. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
Plato
#4. Carey was one of those appalling people who wake refreshed and ready for anything every morning about an hour before everyone else, and then bounce around whistling happily, avoiding death only because they move faster than the people who want to kill them.
P.F. Chisholm
#5. Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
#6. What will come will come, and we will have to meet it, when it does. avoiding death does not extend our time on earth, but facing it valiantly does, because although we are gone in form, we live on and on in the hearts of the people.
J.K. Rowling
#7. Everyone is terrified of death, as we spend our whole lives avoiding it.
Kelly Zygmunt
#8. Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.
Nicky Gumbel
#9. On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.
Philip Yancey
#10. Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?"
"Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.
Paul Kalanithi
#11. To Operate In Misery Is To Disregard The Original Intention Of God
Sunday Adelaja
#13. The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
M. Night Shyamalan
#14. You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you ...
Kate Milford
#15. Abba Macarius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.
Tim Vivian
#16. My dad used to say 'Always fight fire with fire,' which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade.
Harry Hill
#17. To anyone reading this who isn't already dead, I wish you luck, honestly I do. You just keep swallowing your vitamins. Keep jogging around reservoirs and avoiding second hand cigarette smoke. Cross your fingers! Maybe death won't happen to you.
Chuck Palahniuk
#18. Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake.
Nora Ephron
#19. You were always such a saint ... and now you're lost.
Bree Despain
#20. Within this new mix of genes are unprecedented possibilities, old weaknesses eliminated, and new weaknesses that might even turn out to be strengths. This is the mechanism by which the wheels of evolution turn. All
Hope Jahren
#21. The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it ... Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
Socrates
#22. I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and those frightful things - what are they called? - hamsters: all die like flies. So there's no point avoiding it.
Raymond Briggs
#23. A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. I had been avoiding the D-word. But the kids cut right to it. My boys are well aware of death. My twins finish every story they make up with the same phrase: "Then everyone died. The end.
A. J. Jacobs
#25. Do your best to maintain an authentic style of writing. If you are a serious person, be serious. If you are a comic, be funny. Do not choose a style or a tone that is different from the person you really are.
Gudjon Bergmann
#26. In the same way that so many people read 'Harry Potter' and went to see 'Harry Potter,' just because a movie is about a kid, doesn't mean it's for kids, and just because a movie is about a girl, doesn't mean it's for girls.
Cassandra Clare
#27. The family's function is to repress Eros; to induce a false consciousness of security; to deny death by avoiding life; to cut off transcendence; to believe in God, not to experience the Void; to create, in short, one-dimensional man; to promote respect, conformity, obedience. . .
R.D. Laing
#28. Trying to figure out how to best manage his time between doing a task for imbeciles and avoiding imminent and painful death by protocol. I
Sam Sykes
#29. Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.'
And now all she can do is watch it falling.
Amy Tan
#30. I recommend against putting your fist through your monitor.
Barry Burd
#31. Veganism is a brilliant approach for elevating human consciousness and avoiding the energy of death and degeneration associated with killing animals for food, which enters us when we eat their flesh and blood.
Gabriel Cousens M.D.
#32. Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
