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" What is of the nature of spirit and soul must be gleaned from facts belonging to the spirit and soul; we shall then know that in the living thinking which is liberated from the will, a life-germ has been discerned which passes through the gate of death, goes through the spiritual world after death, and afterwards returns again to earthly life. "

Rudolf Steiner

Spiritual

Soul

" Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man

Death

Good

" Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity. "

" I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. "

" We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth. "

" For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me. "

" Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. "

" Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love

Guidance

Surrender

" Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. "

" There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. "

" Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. "

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Death

Life

Illusions

" Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! "

" Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. "

" I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. "

Douglas MacArthur

Death

Eye

" Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. "

" We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being. "

" When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing. "

" Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Moment

Peaceful

Death

" Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I'm not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome. "

" You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that. "

" It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Time

See

" Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. "

" Hell, madam, is to love no longer. "

" It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. "

" Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. "

" Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. "

" Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. "

" The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. "

" In the long run we are all dead. "

" You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos. "