Death Quotes

“You can achieve enlightenment by simply spending time contemplating nature: the formation of clouds, the beauty of the forest, and the lifecycle of the beings that dwell within.”
― Loren Mayshark, Death: An Exploration: Learning To Embrace Life's Most Feared Mystery

“When we ponder the vastness of the universe and eternity, we are closer to understanding the role of death in the mysterious life we are all experiencing. Through these realizations, greater acceptance of the inevitability of death positions us to be happier in our lives. After my journey through these ideas I feel strongly that happiness and a deeper understanding of death are linked phenomena that offer a fuller existence.”
― Loren Mayshark, Death: An Exploration: Learning To Embrace Life's Most Feared Mystery

“DEATH IS A PROFOUND LESSON IN TRUTH: We grow to understand more about it from childhood until the day we must cross the mystic chasm and abandon the land of the living.”
― Loren Mayshark, Death: An Exploration: Learning To Embrace Life's Most Feared Mystery

“Plato reminds us of a simple truth that has not changed in thousands of years: “To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils. And surely it is the most blameworthy ignorance to believe that one knows what one does not know.”
― Loren Mayshark, Death: An Exploration: Learning To Embrace Life's Most Feared Mystery

“Let the children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.” —John Muir   Many”
― Loren Mayshark, Death: An Exploration: Learning To Embrace Life's Most Feared Mystery

“The important truth that William Wallace captured is that “every man dies — not every man really lives.”
― Loren Mayshark, Death: An Exploration: Learning To Embrace Life's Most Feared Mystery

“Steve Jobs. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose,”
― Loren Mayshark, Death: An Exploration: Learning To Embrace Life's Most Feared Mystery