Heraclitus Quotes

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

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

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of our species... We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions and trillions of living things have prepared the way for us and then have died-in a sense, for us. We die, in turn, so that others may live. The tragedy of a single individual becomes, in the balance of natural things, the triumph of ongoing life.

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

Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that "ultimate reality is a unity of opposites" is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

The path up and down is one and the same.

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.

Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.

People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.