#death

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist. ↗

— Charles Stross

#cosmic-sadist #death #everything #life #religion

Death and Rebirth is one of the most crucial parts of life, without one the other simply cannot exist! ↗

— Isabella Poretsis

#death #existance #life #need #rebirth

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust. ↗

— John Green

#death #osama-bin-laden #twitter #death

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man. ↗

— Homer

#death #greece #pride #death

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#against #alive #because #kill #law

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#interesting-quotes #life #death

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#die #sinning #stop #suddenly

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #love #romance #death

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical. ↗

— Rex Hunt

#birth #critical #death #fantastic #fish

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#behaving #beings #belief #death #doomed