Ambition Quote by Aldous Huxley

“And the worst thing, the unsurvivable thing, is understanding that there exist people who know in their flesh the truth of all this. They…

— Emily Maguire

Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of…

— Cicely Saunders

“Human beings are cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality. They are, however, blessed with the ability to ignore it.”

— Adam B. Ford

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is…

— Susan Sontag

“Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs.…

— Norman Mailer

“Hell is indeed a fiery pit—but it’s not found in death, but rather in your stomach when you fail to speak your truth, live…

— Darren Main

“There is a certain dignity in going through life without the promise of Heaven or the threat of Hell.”

— Daniel Everett

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed…

— Ernest Becker

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

— Calvin Miller

“The most salacious stories—bones ground in a metal blender or torture-spike eye caps—had the power to disrupt people’s polite complacency about death. Rather than…

— Caitlin Doughty

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

— Joseph Addison

“„Life is a beautiful denial to belief in death”.”

— A. Tomov - junior