Balanced Quote by John O'Donohue

Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still…

— Julia Cameron

“Perhaps what most of us perceive as the centers of ourselves are simply no longer needed. And we both know that the absence of…

— David Foster Wallace

until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is…

— Marion Milner

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has…

— Gary L. Francione

Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic…

— Nikola Tesla

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

The essence of decay is inactivity.

— Jack LaLanne

“Abstractions do us much harm by impelling us to the quest of the absolute in all things. Joy does not exist, but there are…

— Remy de Gourmont

Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is…

— Epicurus

The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body and brain,…

— Stephen Batchelor

Nothingness is not nothing at all, so it is physical, but not in the sense of constant presence. Nothingness is disturbing. It is there…

— Timothy Morton

The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.

— Monty Oum