#death

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#brave #business #conduct #conscience #death

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#change #character #come #costume #death

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#love #reason #stronger #than

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#life #only #parcel #part #religious

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#cannot #death #intimidated #jail #man

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#death #free #i #more #must

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt. ↗

— Suge Knight

#bankrupt #death #none #row #them

One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. "This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older," Eagleman said--why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass. ↗

— Burkhard Bilger

#amygdala #brain #david-eagleman #detail #life-threatening

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#death #gives #importance #lives #meaning

I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#also #clear #clear idea #death #every