Death doesn’t really worry me that much, I’m not frightened about it… I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.
Just because you fall once, doesn’t mean you’re fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don’t then who will??
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.
I don’t believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.
My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really – which meant I guess that he was still living, too.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.
No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.
Don’t turn over the rocks if you don’t want to see the pale creatures who live under them.
I love to walk. Walking is a spiritual journey and a reflection of living. Each of us must determine which path to take and how far to walk; we must find our own way, what is right for one may not be for another. There is no single right way to deal with late stage cancer, to live life or approach death, or to walk an old mission trail.
Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air. My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is!
If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you’re high, you can do everything you normally do just as well — you just realize that it’s not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.
Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.
When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit
Really, nobody was there?” I asked.“Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.
It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
Someday you will die, and until you know that, you’re useless to me.
Oh for craps sake. You’re not dying again, are you? It’s seriously inconvenient when you do that. -Aphrodite
I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn’t end up with you.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.
Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
Life is magical for those whose hearts are loving, minds are full with joy, and eyes that are dancing with beauty.
Of all freedoms, none is greater than the liberation of the mind.
Do you know what you’re saying when you say, “Whatever”? It’s just a code word for the f-word, followed by “you.” And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.’ ” Blaze leaned back. “So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, ‘You too.’ (72)
You can’t reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life – to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.
The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Patriotism is love of country. But you can’t love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don’t always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.
Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.
MOMWholeheartedly,She loved me-And inspired me-With transcending devotion.It was a blessing-To have been her son,To have been loved-Without conditions.Her words of wisdom-Opened my eyes-To the world-And to myself.By seeing the best in me, She empowered me.By believing in me, She transformed me.She grew old-And floated away,But her love remains standing-Eternally by my side.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.
The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.
She’ll be back, Ranger said. But not tonight.[Stephanie] How’d you get her to leave?Told her I was gonna spend the next twelve hours ruining you for all other men, and so she might as well go home.I could feel the heat rush to my face.Ranger gave me the wolf smile. I lied about it being tonight, he said.
I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That’s what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana’s funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension… Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
That’s peace – real peace. To come to the end – not to have to go on… Yes, peace.
I don’t have a death wish. On the contrary, I’m hanging onto my life like never before.
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.