Huangbo Xiyun Quotes

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.

Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange.

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

Mortality defines the human condition.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Nothing in life is promised except death.