top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
More
"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"The moment one is born, the 'saw starts cutting'. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions.He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know.We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
Faith
"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."
Mortality
"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."
Commonsense
"Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason."
Creativity
"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."
History
"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."
People
"Every calling is great when greatly pursued."
Purpose
"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."
Geography
"The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done.""
Success
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."
Creativity
bottom of page