Death Understanding Quotes

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.

People have not given children enough credit to understand the idea of death. But I really think they do.

Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it, it is better to understand its meaning. We all have the same body, the same human flesh, and therefore we will all die. There is a big difference, of course, between natural death and accidental death, but basically death will come sooner or later. If from the beginning your attitude is 'Yes, death is part of our lives,' then it may be easier to face.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.

Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.