Alive Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

— Primo Levi

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The…

— Rita Mae Brown

“The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The art of dying is the art of living. The honesty and grace of the years of life that are ending is the real…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“But mortification - literally, "making death" - is what life is all about, a slow discovery of the mortality of all that is created…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

“Without conscious rituals of loss and renewal, individuals and societies lose the capacity to experience the sorrows and joy that are essential for feeling…

— Mircea Eliade

Until suitable alternatives are found, this vital work should continue so that hundreds of millions more lives can be saved in the future

— Caroline Flint

The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

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

Progress is the life-style of man.

— Victor Hugo