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Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!

coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.

Dead men tell no tales.

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes

Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.

Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

Dead people are all on the same level.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.

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

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.

Dear me! I must be turning into a god.

Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.

Death-counterfeiting sleep.

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

Death deserves dignity.

Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in is the state of mind that you are born into.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.

Death is a mighty, universal truth.

Death is an acquired trait.

Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.