#phil

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me. ↗

— Maija Haavisto

#philosophical #taboo #death

Tev bija taisnība, zvaigznes ir tuvu. ↗

— Gundega Repše

#latvian #philosophy #death

Ali život se nikome, razumete li me, nikome na ovom svetu ne duguje. Ni majci, ni deci, ni prijeteljima, ni jedom idealu! Život je moje neprikosnoveno pravo! U šta i kako ću ga satreti, moja je lična stvar. ↗

— Dobrica Ćosić

#life-and-death #life-philosophy #serbian #death

You can truly value life, when you have looked Death in the eyes and held its hand. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#life-philosophy #values-in-life #death

Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence. ↗

— Meredith Duran

#philosphical #truth #wise #death

Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish, grief and fear. What more natural than that it should likewise have a share in death? ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#lucretius #mind #philosophy #spirit #death

we deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#death

To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it. ↗

— Bryan Magee

#dying #philosophy #death

...Brain death didn't allow one time to heal, and the brain was the warehouse for the spirit. Punch a hole in that and you'd shuffle off your mortal coil right away. Keeping your coil unshuffled was the problem. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#death

We feel most alive when we are closest to death. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#death-and-dying #life #philosophy #death