Life is uncertain; death is certain.

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.

There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.

In death the many become one; in life the one become many.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life who will proclaim, celebrate, and serve the Gospel of life in every situation. A sign of hope is the increasing recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. I renew the appeal I made ... for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.

Knowledge of life brings confidence, and Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centered.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death.

Watch one in all; then you are realized. If you see many, then it is your spiritual death.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.

The most precious thing in life is life itself. Are you getting it now or only on your deathbed?

I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life.

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.

Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way for the way of light.