“Please enjoy your health while you have it. Because once your body betrays you, no comfort in the world will make up for your loss.”
Source: The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.”
Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
“Dying's a fearful popular activity these days so we often double 'em up.”
Source: Hamlet
“Ted," he said, "when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?" I decided I'm going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“No matter how well you take care of the dying, no matter if you sit beside them every minute, every day—in the end they must go, and you stay. And you wave them off. You lie.”
Source: The Guest Book
“And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
“Turn your attention to all that is dying and decaying. Look at dead leaves, a lifeless tree, a dead animal. Regard anything that is slowly returning to its constituent elements. Smell the pungent odor of decay. Inhale the effluvium of the dissolution process. The object of this exercise is to know the Earth, not just in its telluric aspect (flower bearing soil), but also in its chthonic aspect. Let death talk to you.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are.”
Source: All the Living and the Dead
“It's braver and more honorable to turn back than to forge forward into uncertain terrain. Snowboarding is about living, not about dying.”
Source: The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
“What we call life...is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. Every moment they are born and they die. 'When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.' This, even now during this life time, every moment we are born and die, but we continue. If we can understand that in this life we can continue without a permanent, unchanging substance like Self or Soul, why can't we understand that those forces themselves can continue without a Self or a Soul behind them after the non-functioning of the body?”
Source: What the Buddha Taught