Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death. ”

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart. ”

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you. ”

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. ”

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ”

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. ”

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way. ”

So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us. ”

Our people know that if they are sick, we will take care of them. If there are occasions of grief or joy, we will be there with them. They know that we value them as people, not just cogs in a machine. ”

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. ”