Browsing Quotes With Tag: death (25)
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I leaned one elbow on the table and considered the clock. Watching the hands of a clock advance is a meaningless way to spend time, but I couldn’t think of anything better to do. Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
Speaker: Haruki MurakamiSource: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Seen from death, our close relations with our domestic animals no longer seem to be something minor to be taken for granted, given their everyday nature; ten years of a lifetime have crystallized in Leo, and I take the measure of how the ridiculous, superfluous cats who wander through our lives with all the placidity and indifference of an imbecile are in fact the guardians of life’s good and joyful moments, and of its happy web, even beneath the canopy of misfortune.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 27 Jun 2009 at 1:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both their beauty and their death.
...Does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance?
Maybe that’s what being alive is all about: so we can track down those moments that are dying.Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 27 Jun 2009 at 1:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you dread tomorrow, it’s because you don’t know how to build the present, and when you don’t know how to build the present, you can tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it’s a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don’t you see?
So we mustn’t forget any of this, absolutely not. We have to live with the certainty that we’ll get old and that it won’t look nice or to be good or feel happy. And tell ourselves that it’s now that matters: to build something, now, at any price, using all our strength. Always remember that there’s a retirement home waiting somewhere and so we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity.
That’s what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are all prisoners of our own destiny, must confront it with the knowledge that there is no way out and, in our epilogue, must be the person we have always been deep inside, regardless of any illusions we may have nurtured in our lifetime.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 23 Jun 2009 at 7:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Rather be dead than cool”
Speaker: Kurt CobainSource: BrainyquotePosted: 02 May 2009 at 6:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
Speaker: Indian proverbSource: http://quotes4all.net/Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 11:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains, — but the best is lost.The answers quick & keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,
They are gone. They have gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.Speaker: Edna St. Vincent MillaySource: BabyPosted: 29 Aug 2008 at 8:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing about.
Speaker: VoltairePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We live to die and we die to live- in another realm. If we are well prepared, death brings no terror. From an eternal perspective, death is premature only for those who are not prepared to meet God.
Speaker: Russell M. NelsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Too many vacations, vacations lasting too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video-game playing, too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance – this kind of thing gradually wastes a life, wastes a family. It ensures that one’s capacities stay dormant, God-given talents remain undeveloped, the mind and spirit become lethargic, and the heart is unfulfilled. Such a life gives no service, makes no contribution, enjoys no larger vision, and short of repentance and change, it slips down to spiritual decay and death.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Those who do not know how to worry die young.
Speaker: Alexis CarrelPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
That is the gods’ work, spinning threads of death
through the lives of mortal men,
and all to make a song for those to come…Speaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
…the Sirens’ song is an invitation to live in the past, and that is a kind of death…
Speaker: Bernard KnoxPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it’s hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men’s belief that they ‘own’ their bodies – those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are rejected at the pleasure of Another!
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every door is a portal leading through time as well as space. The same doorway that leads us into and out of a room also leads us into the past of the room and its ceaselessly unfolding future. People knew that once, deep within the ur-mind, the ur-imagination. You can still find those who decorate doorways, and reverently salute them, in every culture, from Ireland to Japan. I stepped up one, two steps, and reached out with my right hand to touch the doorjamb and then touch my chest, over the heart, in a salaam to fate and a homage to the dead friends and enemies who entered with me.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I realized that I didn’t need their brilliance any more: it couldn’t help me. All the cleverness in all the world couldn’t stop my stomach from knotting around its prowling fear. When you know you’re going to die, there’s no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end. The comfort that does come, if it comes at all, is that strangely marbled mix of time and place and feeling that we usually call wisdom. For me, on that last night before the battle, it was the sound of my mother’s voice, and it was the life and death of my friend Prabaker.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I couldn’t face the loss of Khaderbhai, my father-dream. I’d helped to bury him, for God’s sake, with my own hands. But I didn’t grieve, and I didn’t mourn him. There wasn’t enough truth in me for that kind of sorrowing because my heart wouldn’t believe him dead. I’d loved him too much, it seemed to me in that winter of war, for him to simply be gone, to be dead. If so much love could vanish into the earth and speak no more, smile no more, then love was nothing. And I wouldn’t believe that. I was sure there had to be a pay-off, somehow, and I kept waiting for it. I didn’t know then, as I do now, that love’s a one-way street. Love, like respect, isn’t something you get; it’s something you give.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!