Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.
The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.
I'm fine with death. I've dealt out more than my share. It's the act of dyin' that bothers me.
People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.
You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.
I'm going to get 'I'M NOT FUCKING DEAD' tattooed on my chest." "That will become inaccurate at some point, " Omar pointed out.
Whilst the wolflets bayed, A grave was made, And then with the strokes of a silver spade, It was filled to make a mound. And for two cold days and three long nights, The father tended that holy plot; And stayed by where his wife was laid, In the grav...
He looked like a walking, talking billboard for deliciously irresponsible behavior and a treasure trove of regrettable decisions.
Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in a society in which inequality is based more on merit and effort than on kinship and rents. This belief and this hope play a ver...
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
Where does one go from the bottom? You hit the bottom of the well and what? People say the only place to go is up, but they seem to ignore how long you can spend wallowing in the muck at the bottom of the well.
Take heart, sir," Cazaril consoled him. "It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to win an for your grandson.
I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.
If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.
I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.
If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?" Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.
The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.
But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts.
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
A life's meaning comes not from the manner in which one dies, but in the manner in which one lives.
