Death Quote by Nadine Gordimer Download Open image ““Presence of death standing by makes a sacrament of tenuous relationships.”” — Nadine Gordimer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Death Death Standing Makes Sacrament Presence Death Relationships Sacrament Tenuous Tenuous Relationships
“A sacrament gives a dramatic sign that points beyond itself to some truth of redemption that is crucial to the life of the people… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I am no longer fit to administer the sacraments because I express love in the way God intended for me—with another man.” — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper. — Kathleen Dowling Singh Copy Share Image
“So as we grow in Christ, we grow into new families, formed by a deep common love of God. The bond, it seems, is… — Emilie Griffin Copy Share Image
“I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Reality and symbolism in the sacraments ... Only if we reject false dilemmas ... it will be possible to delve deeper, to discern the… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“sacramental rite or not. Hence the necessity of a proper intention.” — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.” — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
“You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.” — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“What did you see?” she asked gently. His brow furrowed, as if he could not understand the question. Then his eyes turned to the… — J. Anthony Torino Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I practice Dying--every night-- But have not learned to, still-- Though Talented--by Mortal bones-- For such a common Skill.” — Alan W. Powers Copy Share Image
“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.” — Steven Cooper Copy Share Image
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
