Old age cannot be cured. An epoch or a civilization cannot be prevented from breathing its last. A natural process that happens to all flesh and all human manifestations cannot be arrested. You can only wring your hands and utter a beautiful swan song. —Renee Winegarten More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back and forth across you, up and down, round and round you until each little fiber is worn tissue-thin with aching. And when you are lying beaten and buffeted, battered and broken — pain goes out, joins hands with Death, and comes back to dance, dance, dance, stamp, stamp, stamp down on you until you give up. —Marita Bonner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When one cannot be sure that there are many days left, each single day becomes as important as a year, and one does not waste an hour in wishing that that hour were longer, but simply fills it, like a smaller cup, as high as it will go without spilling over. —Natalie Kusz More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is tough . . . What do you get at the end of it? A death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backward. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old-age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating — and you finish off as an orgasm. —George Carlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The leaves move in the garden, the sky is pale, and I catch myself weeping. It is hard — it is hard to make a good death. —Katherine Mansfield More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils. —Socrates More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished. —Chuck Palahniuk More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. —Charles De Gaulle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death is everywhere. It may be the headlights of a car on a hilltop in the distance behind. They may remain visible for a while, and disappear into the darkness as if they had been scooped away; only to appear on another hilltop, and then disappear again. Those are the lights on the head of death. Death puts them on like a hat and then shoots off on a gallop, gaining on us, getting closer and closer. Sometimes it turns off its lights. But death never stops. —Carlos Castaneda More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. —W. H. Auden More about this quote Tags: death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. —Charles Bukowski More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once in a museum [painter Pierre] Bonnard persuaded his friend Vuillard to distract an attendant while he approached his own old painting, slipped from his pocket a tiny box of paints and a brush the size of a toothpick, and added to one of his consecrated canvases minute touches that set his mind at rest. —Annette Vaillant More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. —Clive Bell More about this quote Tags: religion escape art ecstasy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most beautiful paintings and sculptures, the greatest poetry, have not always been born from torment or bitterness. Often they have sprung from contemplation, from joy, from an instinct or wonder toward all things. To create from joy, to create from wonder, demands a continual discipline, a great compassion. . . . With time and sincerity, you will discover a way to work and write that does not harm you spiritually, that does not tempt you to vanity, that is the deepest expression of your spirituality. You will find a voice that is not your voice only, but the voice of Reality itself. . . . If you can be empty enough, that voice can speak through you. If you can be humble enough, that voice can inhabit you and use you. —Thuksey Rinpoche More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is. —Rita Mae Brown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email