Acknowledge Quote by Susan Minot

Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.

— Anne Shropshire

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

— Blaise Pascal

I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it…

— Andrew Solomon

In earlier cultures with pagan belief systems, light and dark were celebrated equally, people were around death a lot. In contemporary Western culture, we…

— Robert Eggers

“A period of darkness is essential in order to expand personal awareness. Experiencing sadness and loss makes a person appreciative of life, more tenderhearted,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

— Curtis Armstrong

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

— Stanley Kubrick

I always used to suffer a great deal if I let myself get too close to reality since the definitive world of the everyday…

— Angela Carter

It is not seeing the light that impacts one's life; it is never ceasing to see the light that impresses one's life, spirit, heart…

— Carissa Aydaa

I understand that there are forms of entertainment that can make people weep or jazz them up so they feel like they have had…

— Parker J. Palmer

Humans yearn for bright lights, fame and approval. Ignoring the risk of blindness and death of ones respect.

— Anonymous

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson