Quotes About Celebration Of Death

#1. What is birthday, but a celebration of death.

Aphole

#2. Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#3. I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.

Henry Rollins

#4. You are young men and not children. The idea is that art allows the child imprisoned inside the adult to come out to play and celebrate the world and its beauty." He said that art was intimately linked with immortality: a challenge to death and time, a celebration of life.

Sinan Antoon

#5. It's not going to be easy. It's the earth. What creates power in your life is when you perfect your mind, your career, and your associations with others.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

Joanne Harris

#7. Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#8. Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we, with all our freedoms, often choose to make Christmas a celebration of commercialism!

Erwin W. Lutzer

#9. Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.

Laurence Gonzales

#10. When eating becomes a matter of life or death, and each new bite is a celebration, you may discover that none of the other stuff was quite as important as sitting and breaking bread together.

Bee Wilson

#11. During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

Al Sharpton

#12. If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fact you may not make it. And in doing that there shouldn't be bitterness. There should be a celebration. There should be an understanding of how lucky you are. That's how I feel.

Robby Benson

#13. In essence, we live only to die; the Christian dies only to live; it is a celebration of life, not death.

Danny L. Deaube

#14. Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!

Joanne Harris

#15. Directing a funeral isn't about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead.

Rebecca McNutt

#16. Life!' Vito exploded, making me jump. Up and down, good and bad, birth and death, celebration and devastation. If you got any balls at all, you roll with the punches and get the fuck on with it, pardon my French

Kristen Ashley

#17. I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#18. If the social order and the processes of commodification are not transformed in relation to the body through salvation, then salvation becomes hyperlocalized to a single relationship: God and the one being saved.64

Willie James Jennings

#19. When the time comes, the journey toward the brilliant white light that marks the barrier between this world and the next will not hold as much fear as it once would have. For in my study of death, I have found the celebration of life.

Dolores Cannon

#20. Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

Samuel Parr

#21. I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

Daniel Clowes

#22. The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

Thomas Aquinas

#23. Life can become a celebration if you know how to live without concern. Otherwise life becomes a long prolonged disease, an illness which culminates only in death.

Osho

#24. But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

Theodore Bikel

#25. Man may see a great deal of difference between grass and a little tree, but if you mount very high, the grass and the biggest tree will appear much the same. So, from the standpoint of the highest ideal, the lowest animal and the highest man are the same. If

Swami Vivekananda

#26. Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering.
Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them.
Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.

Steven Erikson

#27. A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

Jimmy Hoffa

#28. We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave
us!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.

Norman Mailer

#30. The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

Damien Hirst

#31. There should be celebration rallies when people die ... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death.

Mao Zedong

#32. The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

Jane Austen

#33. I didn't need to tell her that I loved her. The words were meaningless because they were spoken so much. Actions were always louder, always more potent.
I showed her.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#34. When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.

Rajneesh

#35. Remembering may be a celebration or it may be a dagger in the heart, but it is better, far better, than forgetting.

Donald M. Murray

#36. There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.

Lisa Gerrard

#37. The music is happy; the laughter is happy. Everything feels ecstatic and desperate. Blurrily, I think of sex, and I think of death. I realize: Every moment of joyous celebration contains the seed of death.

Laura Rose Wagner

#38. Halloween was a celebration of life through an awareness of death, and a reminder of the presence of spirits.

R. Cooper

#39. In the life of a child of the elite, there are many moments ripe for a grand celebration. There are birth and the inevitable death.In between,various stages of consciousness define the nature and scale of celebration.

K.J. Kilton