“...afflictions arise from identifying with a false sense of self, whereas great contentment arises from seeing the true nature of things. If… — Karma Lekshe Tsomo Copy Share Image
Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
By struggling toovercome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life anddevelop… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
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That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
States without the death penalty have had consistently lower murder rates. And national murder rates have declined steadily since 1992, despite fewer executions. — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
“There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“When the Root and Branch were young, when the Rose still grew unplucked upon the tree; when all our lands were new… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“Undo it, take it back, make every day the previous one until I am returned to the day before the one that… — Nessa Rapoport Copy Share Image
“Anything which is just born, which has just come into existence, has no past behind it. Birth, in other words, is the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“It's like a lion at the door; And when the door begins to crack, It's like a stick across you back; And… — John Newberry Copy Share Image
I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
“While he hung on the cross, caught in the agony of such a death, Jesus found the strength to speak a handful… — Tessa Afshar Copy Share Image
The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“He breathed in the briny air. In a far less dreamy tone, he asked, “How was Death?” Loki clicked his tongue. “He… — Kaylin Boyd Copy Share Image
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“There is one truth that we all are born with, The Death. In between the birth and the death, we are given… — AnkitMishra Copy Share Image
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden… — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better, unto my thinking, doth… — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
“Dying was and easy thing to accomplish, effortless in its agony. It was living that was hard, requiring endless toil and labor,… — Danielle L. Jensen Copy Share Image
“So wise men avoided Usha. The death of her husband ensured that she became inauspicious. The white sari wrapped itself around her… — Paul Haston Copy Share Image
“Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness is such a… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“I might face death any minute now! But I should try not to put myself in harms' way as long as I… — Samad Beh-Rang Copy Share Image
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“I wanted to scream with the pain, scream with the feeling of death pressing so close but I clenched my teeth together,… — Hannah Blatchford Copy Share Image
“Don’t listen to the ramblings of fools,” he said, smiling grimly. “When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth,… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale's there? It is the same he died with, only some of the longer… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“A habit that makes us humans. Hating life all the way to the end and when the death knocks our doors, We… — Hadir K. Gabr Copy Share Image
“For death is always in the shadow of the delight of love. In faint adumbration there is present the dread, haunting question,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The body without soul is no longer at the sacrifice. At the day of death it come to rebirth. The divine spirit… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
“Saving You The darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“The cross is the assurance that effective prophetic criticism is done not by an outsider but always by one who must embrace… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“In the first place a man never is happy but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
![“I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are just conventional. I hope they are true whenever I read it of someone. [But] I would rather be awake. Peacefully awake, brim full of some calming drug that was seeing me out of the…” quote by Ian Mcewan](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/8f0/ian-mcewan-494_announcements_i-read-in-announcements-of-deaths-peacef_2639930.jpg)
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