#death

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#believed #brain #death #described #escaped

Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical needs of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#death

Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. ("Hanka") ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#grave #holocaust #death

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. ↗

— William Goldman

#fair #fairer #just #life #than

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#because #deaths #done #film #films

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#death #peaceful #pleasant #transition #troublesome

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#death #his #little #man #much

Righteousness and love, law and grace, life and death, as well as time and eternity all intersect at the cross; displaying a divine wisdom that staggers the imagination and leads the humble heart to bow in thankful adoration. To understand the cross of Christ is to understand the heart of God toward a fallen world He wants to save. ↗

— Steven Cook

#cross #god #jesus-christ #death

After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country, which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#hatred #legend #mystery #power #understanding

When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death. ↗

— Kyung-Sook Shin

#death #grave #seeking-comfort #death