Being human Quote by John Austin Baker

To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“What is personal death? Asking this question and pausing to look inward - isn't personal death a concept? Isn't there a thought-and-picture series going…

— Toni Packer

It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

— Anonymous

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is…

— Lance Morrow

“There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it…

— Aleksandar Hemon

We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is…

— Henri Barbusse

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

— Emile M. Cioran

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that…

— Blaise Pascal

Inherently within the temperamental soul of humanity lies a shivering and thoroughly jealous irrational thought of death. Life has such a fickle intense passion,…

— Johnny Luckett

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be…

— William Faulkner

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

— Anna Funder

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the…

— Marcus Aurelius