#death

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life. ↗

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#helps #immediacy #less #life #live

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#aesthetic #applauded #death #found #gotten

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#capital #date #death #further #higher

Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#after #again #bosnia #cambodia #deaths

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#cowards #death #deaths #die #many

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#another #death #decisions #eyes #found

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

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore. ↗

— Robert Smith

#death #i #romantic #think #way

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#come #days #death #decades #even

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. ↗

— Socrates

#death #greatest #human #may