“Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Death http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21379/Death <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”
Source: The Essays: A Selection
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James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 52).
Variant: Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to be troubled about, or to make trouble about.
“Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Variant: Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Life, you are our friend. Death, our lover.”
Alessandro Pavolini (1903–1945) Italian politician and writer
Quoted in "L'Italia del fascio" By Mario Isnenghi - Page 39.
“If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man.”
Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Source: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel
Context: The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would deprive him and whoever else remains alive from the uniqueness, the originality, and the capacity for insight that these enemies — being human — also have and could share with him. If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man. In the losing of the chance for dialogue with our enemies, we are the poorer.
“Our knowledge of life is limited to death”
Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
“Our life is made by the death of others.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIV Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology