Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine’s mouth. “Death,” hewhispered to her, “should be a quiet thing.
If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.
In every person, there is a doer and a devil. With every passing days, the doer dies and a devil has to rise.
But hey, if there’s one bright side to your dying, it’s that you aren’t around to tell me things I don’t like hearing. I’m sorry. That was a dickhead thing to say. I need a condom for my mouth.
In fact, she was both my first and second words: Umma, then Mom. I called to her in two languages. Even then I must have known that no one would ever love me as much as she would.
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
Well, I always did want to go out in a Braveheart kind of way. I’ll just have to think of something cool to yell before they cut my head off.
Headline? he asked.’Swing Set Needs Home,’ I said.’Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,’ he said.’Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,’ I said.
There is no evidence that we’ve been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.
The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
I consist of body and soul – in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn’t we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
It’s not that I want you to go, it’s just that I don’t want you to stay. – China Sorrows –
If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.
Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it’s neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?
Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. A brief life seems pointless.Tristan thought for a moment. Isn’t that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift?
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
On the Death of his ChildDew Evaporates And all our world is dew…so dear, So fresh, so fleeting
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of… We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
despite knowingthey won’t be here for longthey still choose to livetheir brightest lives- sunflowers
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, ‘Do trousers matter?’The mood will pass, sir.
I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When did you get in?’ We mainly just talked to get familiar with each other.
Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.
There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I’m so angry and bitter. But it doesn’t last too long. Then I get up and say, ‘I want to live..’ ‘So far, I’ve been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don’t know. But I’m betting on myself I will.’ Koppel seemed extremely taken with Morrie. He asked about the humility that death induced.
Most men don’t seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones
Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry — with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, ‘Here is a painting; take it, please.
Lost – yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary
Most of the time, I do not want to die. But I would like to have the means of death within my grasp. I want to feel the luxury of choice, to know the answer to “How do I bear this?” need not always be “Endure.
I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. – Somerled.
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather He will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.
It was the worst moment of my life, to realize she was really gone, never to return.”
Tara does not know what it would be like to have lived with the same person, loved the same person, for so many years, and suddenly have them not be with you ever again.