Breaths Quote by Victoria Finlay

Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of…

— Philip K. Dick

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

. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we…

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

— PZ Myers

Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in…

— Peter Matthiessen

What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is…

— Stephen Mitchell

Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it…

— E. M. Forster

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

— Alan Watts

We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring.…

— Herbert Otto Gille

“For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else. But we…

— Thomas Ligotti

We're each given one life, and it's our job to make it useful, beautiful, and fulfilling. There is no value in suffering through it,…

— Sarah Jio

We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact with. Our…

— Noah Levine