3 December 2020 Tryon Edwards We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
3 December 2020 Anne Frank I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.
3 December 2020 Wendell Berry It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
3 December 2020 Gus Van Sant Even when you’re making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it’s part of my dramatic viewpoint. I’m not sure why exactly.
3 December 2020 Andrew Greeley I think that the core doctrines of Christianity – the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.
3 December 2020 Bobby Darin Everybody thinks I’m at death’s door, but I’m not. There’s nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
3 December 2020 William Lloyd Garrison The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
3 December 2020 Georg Hermes Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
3 December 2020 Peter Mullan There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there’s fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.
3 December 2020 Donna Shalala But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.
3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
3 December 2020 Lord Byron Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
