"If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the "Beyond " into nothingness " one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering."

Mortality, Immortality, Life, Death, Philosophy

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"If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the "Beyond " into nothingness " one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering."

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"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Mortality, Death, Dream, Violence, Memory

"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Mortality, Death, Time, Meaning, Aging

"Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we'd die, we'd wander around and sleep like cats."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Mortality, Writing, Death, Triumph, Life

"Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that. - T-shirt."

Darynda Jones, American Author

Mortality, Death, Humor, Observation, Life

"Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Mortality, Fear, Death, Time

"Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Mortality, Reflection, Forgiveness, Life

"Every thought about death takes a moment of life away."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Mortality, Death, Life, Moment, Thought

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Mortality, Fear, Life, Death, Living

"Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Mortality, Death, Suffering, Conviction, Reason

"I have died at the ripe age of twenty.Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint me.I have died at the mature age of ninety.Smile, for my life was more than satisfying.I have died suddenly-out of the blue.Smile, for I didn't have to fall ill before you.I have died from a long illness.Smile, for I had the chance to say goodbye.I did not want to leave this Earth.But smile, for I am still here among you.Why are you crying?Can you not see I am smiling?"

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

Mortality, Death, Acceptance, Life, Smile

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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."

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"To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities-I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not-that one endures."

Strength

"The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame."

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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

Emotion

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

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"He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed."

Fate

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"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it."

"Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we'd die, we'd wander around and sleep like cats."

"Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that. - T-shirt."

"Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time."

"Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect."

"Every thought about death takes a moment of life away."

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived."

"Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism."

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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."

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"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

"He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed."

"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."

"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."

"How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?"

"Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy."