Morrie Schwartz Quotes

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly existence. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end. Yet death is unpredictable: We do not know when or how it will take place. So it is only sensible to take certain precautions before it actually happens.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

Death is a very important part of life.

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.