An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.
At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.
And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.
I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.
The truth is, even those who think Dreams only happen to someone else carry a Dream hidden deep in their heart, just hoping it can come true.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
