Zhuangzi Quotes

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Our life is made by the death of others.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

My perspective on life is now to try to play music that reflects that life and death are part of the same coin. And to know about life, we must really examine the function - like death. Life tells you a lot about what death is, not what people say it is.

no light no dark no you no me know light know dark know you know me

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between the two extreme poles of birth and death, just like life is drama. This is not sad, because to be alive means to be mortal, to pass through.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

What is and what is not create each other.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

Nobody asked you about being born, nobody is going to ask you when the time comes for you to be taken away. Then why be worried? Birth happened to you; death will happen to you; who are you to come in between?

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.