"And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment." ― Bodhidharma Topic(s): Death More From Bodhidharma "The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion." "A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad." "Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial." More In Death "The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual – when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions – it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."― Isaac Bashevis Singer "Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."― Bell Hooks "I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."― Willa Cather