Conscience Quote by Abhijit Naskar

“Our most dismaying failure is in the use of our knowledge of what human beings need in the way of bodily and spiritual nourishment.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“To some degree, the entirety of human culture and civilization has been built upon survival and death avoidance. From the creation of society and…

— Tim Seeley

“We have fallen out of belonging. Consequently, when we stand before crucial thresholds in our lives, we have no rituals to protect, encourage, and…

— John O'Donohue

“Death: It is the greatest adventure. It is stunning that in western civilization we deny it to the degree that we do. Perhaps that…

— Eben Alexander

“Death drives every creative and destructive impulse we have as human beings. The closer we come to understanding it, the closer we come to…

— Caitlin Doughty

In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change…

— Ahmed Kathrada

“All of creation suffers, young ones. Only in accepting our own mortality can we make a difference. Only in bearing the burden of our…

— Simon Spurrier

“Death and destruction are necessary to the health of the world, and therefore as natural, and lovable, as birth and life. Only priests and…

— Ragnar Redbeard

“Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.”

— Pema Chödrön

“Our basic human institutions - religion, matrimony, and burial, also law, language, literature, and whatever else relies on the transmission of legacy - are…

— Robert Pogue Harrison

A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the…

— Marina Warner

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves…

— James Baldwin