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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. -- Jose Marti
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! -- William Shakespeare
My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially. -- Cheryl Strayed
Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestimable benefits of it from our society. No amount of studying oxbow lakes was ever going to help me emotionally through the death of my father. -- Rory Kinnear
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. -- Hu Shih
As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up. -- Deepak Chopra
Life demands death to self -- Sunday Adelaja
Comparison is the death of true self-contentment. -- John Powell
The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another. -- Virginia Woolf
Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love. -- Austin Osman Spare
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As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness. -- Theodosius Dobzhansky
A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away. -- Kurt Cobain
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. -- Steven Pressfield
I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect. -- Adela Rogers St. Johns
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement. -- Dag Hammarskjold
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death. -- Diane Ackerman
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness. -- Margaret Deland
It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God. -- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God. -- Oswald Chambers
When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death. -- Honore de Balzac
Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember. -- Eric S. Nylund
The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs. -- William Styron
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self. -- Richard Leakey
The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives. -- Sadhu Sundar Singh
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death. -- Henry Ward Beecher
the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self! -- Sarah Orne Jewett
All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. -- Walter Russell
You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death. -- Gena Rowlands
When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self. -- Marilyn Ferguson
On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation. -- Margaret M. Lock
The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death. -- Watchman Nee
I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career. -- Kristan Higgins
Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the Atman. -- Swami Vivekananda
[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death. -- C. S. Lewis
A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules. -- Christopher Hitchens
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world. -- Mark Zuckerberg
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men. -- Hermann Hesse
While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth. -- Daisaku Ikeda
When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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