As the day grew brighter, he grew dimmer, and more of his friends gathered around his bed. They took up their oars and rowed with him as far as they could. —Carrie Fisher More about this quote Tags: friends death darkness passage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: religion death animals theology funerals ceremony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The dying must often feel this way — steaming along just fine, while on ahead someone has torn up the rails. —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: death feelings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One-third, more or less, of all the sorrow . . . [we] must endure is . . . inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time . . . toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two-thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It kills me sometimes, how people die. —Markus Zusak More about this quote Tags: death irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: war reality beauty religion facts death blood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death . . . as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. —Susan Sontag More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All men think all men mortal but themselves. —Edward Young More about this quote Tags: others death mortality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You throw an anchor into the future you want to build, and you pull yourself along by the chain. —John O'Neal More about this quote Tags: power vision effort control the future Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be joyful / though you have considered all the facts. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Tags: facts joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we should be so lucky as to touch the lives of many, so be it. But if our lot is no more than the setting of a table, or the tending of a garden, or showing a child a path in a wood, our lives are no less worthy. —Kent Nerburn More about this quote Tags: children garden worthiness child-rearing keeping house Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts. . . . To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: heart mankind idealism longing water men and women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Revolution does not begin with a group. It begins from the heart. —Shahla Khan More about this quote Tags: heart revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others. —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fight Apathy. Or Don't. —Graffito More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email