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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. -- Marcus Aurelius
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. -- Barnett Newman
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. -- Carol P. Christ
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. -- Dennis Prager
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death. -- John Thorn
The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love. -- Peter Abelard
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body. -- Susan Griffin
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross? -- Saint Bernard
The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed. -- Billy Graham
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. -- Charles Mackay
I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't. -- Natascha McElhone
I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic. -- David Suchet
Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. -- Hugh Hefner
A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal. -- William Jay
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. -- Pete Hegseth
The land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death. -- Adoniram Judson
Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. -- Duane Michals
One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories. -- Suzanne Collins
I just want people to recognize my father as an artist who was way ahead of his time. He was a genius. His life just burnt out quicker than it should have. And that is unfortunate, but what is more unfortunate is that everybody focuses on the nature of his death as opposed to the nature of his life, which was so much greater and more important. -- Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Everyone owes nature a death. -- Sigmund Freud
Death is nature's way of killing you. -- Bill Maher
Man maketh a death which Nature never made. -- Edward Young
Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death. -- Blaise Pascal
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. -- Blaise Pascal
Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature. -- Julia Ward Howe
Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down. -- Dick Sharples
In nature there is no death, Only a reshuffling of atoms. -- G.J
For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death. -- Tom McMillan
Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced. -- Peter James
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation. -- Edwin Way Teale
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death. -- Andre Gide
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth. -- Ramana Maharshi
Nature is bent on new beginningand death has not a chance of winning... -- Rosy Cole
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. -- Marcus Aurelius
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. -- Alexander Smith
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life. -- Herman Melville
Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death. -- Stephenie Meyer
Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature. -- Stephen Crane
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing. -- Philip James Bailey
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death. -- Eric Hoffer
Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one. -- Edward Young
When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature ... -- Marie Bashkirtseff
No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature -- Christopher Ryan
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. -- Ellen Glasgow
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death. -- Lucretius
Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop. -- Jim Fixx
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors. -- Bram Stoker
If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death -- C.G. Jung
If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death -- C.G. Jung
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat. -- Romain Rolland
If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other. -- Philippa Gregory
Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories! -- Alison Owen
Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same. -- Marcus Aurelius
Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death. -- Blaise Pascal
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world. -- Gautama Buddha
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death. -- Ayn Rand
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity... -- John Muir
But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man." -- Tom Robbins
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. -- Lucretius
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. -- Marcus Aurelius
Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore. -- Holly Black
The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it. -- Donna Tartt
Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal. -- John Fowles
Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life. -- Isobelle Carmody
Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far more serious matter. -- Dave Barry
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death. -- William Shakespeare
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels. -- Charlie Chaplin
Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights. -- Ivan Turgenev
Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death. -- Titus Lucretius Carus
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours. -- Virginia Woolf
The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature. -- Enza Vita
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows. -- Charles Darwin
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best! -- Robert Burns
Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease. -- Paul Valery

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