Consumption Quote by Georges Bataille

“Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our creativity. As Kafka said,…

— Caitlin Doughty

“Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our creativity. As Kafka said,…

— Caitlin Doughty

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death's power is limited -- It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble the smallest…

— Donna VanLiere

Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness…

— Theodor Fontane

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact…

— Anonymous

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

— Dorothee Solle

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

— Laurie Anderson

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

— Paulo Coelho

“Death only comes when a being has served its purpose. From a narrow perspective, that purpose may not be clear, but in the grand…

— Charbel Tadros

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it…

— Paul Theroux