You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you. As long as you demand to be loved, there is no love in you; and if you feel no love, you are ugly, brutish, so why should you be loved? Without love you are a dead thing; and when the dead thing asks for love, it is still dead. Whereas, if your heart is full of love, then you never ask to be loved, you never put out your begging bowl for someone to fill it. —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: love life heart death fullness wanting demands ugliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had known when I was twenty-one that I should be as happy as I am now, I should have been sincerely shocked. They promised me wormwood and the funeral raven. —Christopher Isherwood More about this quote Tags: age youth death shock Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is good that fire should burn, even if it consumes your house; it is good that force should crush, even if it crushes you; it is good that rain should fall, even if it destroys your crops and floods your land. Plagues and pestilences attest to the constancy of natural law. They set us to cleaning our streets and houses and to readjusting our relations to outward nature. Only in a live universe could disease and death prevail. Death is a phase of life, a redistributing of the type. Decay is another kind of growth. —John Burroughs More about this quote Tags: bad good death all one sickness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: war ideas death nobility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I couldn’t love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn’t love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that’s all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you. —Rainbow Rowell in Attachments More about this quote Tags: love death romance romantic love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you’re watching someone die. —Melina Marchetta in On the Jellicoe Road More about this quote Tags: life death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: politics death patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city. —P.D. James More about this quote Tags: death nature violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Each of us, we humans, if we are to look our own kind in the eye, should at least be willing to say we’re sorry, that all over our smaller and more lethal planet, whatever the causes, we’re still killing our own kind — the same but different, but our own kind nonetheless. —Thomas Lynch More about this quote Tags: war apology compromise death killing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People who let their dogs and cats have litters in order to show their children the “miracle of birth” should come witness the “miracle of death” performed in the back rooms of animal shelters all over the country. —Phyllis Wright More about this quote Tags: politics life death dogs cats birth animal shelters Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them? —Sue Monk Kidd More about this quote Tags: life death responsibility earth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. … You might say these are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet. —William Boyd More about this quote Tags: truth life happiness facts death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
From the rise, he looks out over his place. This is it. This is all there is in the world — it contains everything there is to know or possess, yet everywhere people are knocking their brains out trying to find something different, something better. His kids all scattered, looking for it. Everyone always wants a way out of something like this, but what he has here is the main thing there is — just the way things grow and die, the way the sun comes up and goes down every day. These are the facts of life. They are so simple, they are almost impossible to grasp. —Bobbie Ann Mason More about this quote Tags: life death growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me. —Chris Rapier More about this quote Tags: life death hatred Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. —William Goldman More about this quote Tags: life death fairness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email