It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.
The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
Funerals are for the living. If we have not done for the dead while they were yet in flesh, it is too late; let the matter pass at the grave. Day by day we should live for those who are to die; and live so that we may die for those who are to live. Funerals are for the living.
People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.
One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don’t just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you most.
Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don’t make the mistake of thinking that the… cosmos… gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.
I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.
If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right
No drowning man can know which dropOf water his last breath did stop
I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There’s no philosophy – well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.
There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up…. and handle it.
No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.
In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.
If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
I’m going to get ‘I’M NOT FUCKING DEAD’ tattooed on my chest.That will become inaccurate at some point, Omar pointed out.
Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal’s shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye…until we meet again
Common man’s patience will bring him more happiness than common man’s power.
Tyler lies back and asks, If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, Clawing at the lid of her coffin.
Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn’t alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.
Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
… she’s worried more about mail being late than perceiving a death alarm.
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up…
Life’s so unpredictable. You never know when the next high or low will strike you. The trick is just to flow with the tide.
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Ahmed looked shocked, his hands digging into my arms. ‘But you love him,’ he said softly. ‘You love him, and you should save him. That’ what people do with those they love, Amani — they save them.’ No iT wasn’t. Sam had taught me that. Great love stories ended in death. All stories ended in death sooner or later. Ours was ending sooner.