There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
Chief Seattle (Sealth), Suquamish chief
Always be able to kill your students.
Grand Master Masaaki Hatsumi, Bujinken Dojo
The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
Michael Friedman
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Chief Aupumut (1725), Mohican
It was supposed that lost spirits were roving about everywhere in the invisible air, waiting for children to find them if they searched long and patiently enough … [The spirit] sang its spiritual song for the child to memorize and use when calling upon the spirit guardian as an adult.
Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket), Salish
… death doesn’t prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren’t dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)
Untitled, Franz Wright (quoted on Facebook in memory of Travis Lizotte, mountaineer and Outward Bound instructor)
In the final analysis, the question of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ
Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me.
Annie Dillard
The opposite of good is not evil, it is indifference.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E.M. Forster, English novelist and essayist
When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I’ve never tried before.
Mary Jane “Mae” West
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