William Shatner Quotes

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

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.

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

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

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Everything that gets born dies.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.

From death's perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is just the person, always dear.

Death is the mother of forms.

Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.