Attachment Quote by Margaret Mary Alacoque

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully…

— David Steindl-Rast

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

— Bryant H. McGill

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Death is not the consummation of oneself but just the end of oneself. Before the self vanishes nothing really is, and that is how…

— Iris Murdoch

For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to…

— Elizabeth of the Trinity

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

— Victor Hugo

Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do…

— Yoda

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

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

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are…

— Aldous Huxley

The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.

— Maaza Mengiste