#death

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate. ↗

— David Brooks

#causes #comprehensible #confront #cult #death

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#alive #arms #around #death #flap

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#appreciate #better #culture #death #i

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible. ↗

— Isaac Butt

#attending #birth #buried #date #death

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#after #am #catholic #death #doubts

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do? ↗

— Chanakya

#control #death #distant #healthy #long

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#death #into #language #leap #new

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#death #desire #die #even #everything

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#basically #cultural #death #grew #i

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. ↗

— Albert Claude

#appreciation #case #death #experienced #familiarity