But, secondly, in the moments in my life where I have fallen in love, I have just as little power over it as I do in grief. On Instagram, you posted something about Rayya that I thought was just unbelievable, moving and eloquent. This may be asking too much, but would you consider even reading that? It has a lot of anger in it, too, which I find interesting.
In February and March, I was sick with rage … I was frustrated because I felt like, This is interfering with my grief. Then I realized, Oh, no, this is my grief. My grief is manifesting itself as ferocious, blind rage right now. How dare you take down this person in the way that you did? That would really make you a cynic or even more profoundly angry. For me, that was the distancing mechanism, to say, for all the wonder and enchantment in the world, there is random evil, and you better know it.
Do you believe in an afterlife? Do you believe that this is just a temporary separation? I believe in an always life. Unknown Submitted by the Wisdom Quotes Community. In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death. When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.
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William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet. The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die. Birth and death are the most singular events we experience — and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility. There is only one god and his name is Death, and there is only one thing we say to Death: Syrio Forel Games Of Thrones. Do not fear death. Death is always at our side. When we show fear, it jumps at us faster than light.
But, if we do not show fear, it casts its eye upon us gently and then guides us into infinity. Death must be so beautiful. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: Woody Allen Click to tweet. I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street. I carry death in my left pocket.
Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: When you coming for me? There are only three things that can kill a farmer: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Neither the sun, nor death can be looked at steadily. I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world.
It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe. Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity.
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They seem to be more afraid of life than death. Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone? Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. Socrates Click to tweet. You want to live — but do you know how to live?
You are scared of dying — and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead? The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows. We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death. I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel Life of Pi. Love never dies a natural death. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.
It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. Langston Hughes Click to tweet. Give place to others, as others have given place to you.
Equality is the soul of equity.
Who can complain of being comprehended in the same destiny, wherein all are involved? It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. Thomas Moore Click to tweet. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — myth is more potent than history — dreams are more powerful than facts — hope always triumphs over experience — laughter is the cure for grief — love is stronger than death.
The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. Charlotte Bronte Click to tweet. She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell.
Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. One cannot get through life without pain… What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us. Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
Grieving is not weakness nor absence of faith. Grieving is as natural as crying when you are hurt, sleeping when you are tired or sneezing when your nose itches.
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The only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground. The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created. When we are learning the world, we know things we cannot say how we know.
When we are relearning the world in the aftermath of a loss, we feel things we had almost forgotten, old things, beneath the seat of reason. The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana Click to tweet. Because life is fragile and death inevitable, we must make the most of each day.
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind? When death overtakes us, all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us. Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive.
It is as though they were traveling abroad. Carve your name on hearts , not tombstones. And don't pull the trigger, Boris. Where did you go to finishing school? On a pirate ship? Isn't he the young coward all St. Petersburg is talking about? It's a very complicated situation, Cousin Sonja. I'm in love with Alexei. Alicia is having an affair with Lev. I love Simkin, but in a different way than Alexei. Alexei loves Tatiana like a sister. The firm of Mishkin and Mishkin is sleeping with the firm of Taskov and Taskov! Voskovec and I quarrel frequently. I've become a scandal. What's in his room?
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I'm having trouble adjusting my belt. Do you think you could come over here and hold my bosom for a while? How long has it been since you've made love to a woman? What happens after we die? Is there a Hell? Is there a God? Do we live again? All right, lemme ask one key question. Let me show you how absurd your position is. Let's say there is no God, and each man is free to do exactly as he chooses.
What prevents you from murdering somebody? But judgment of any system of phenomena exists in any rational, metaphysical or epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur in the thing itself, or of the thing itself. Yeah, I've said that many times. So who is to say what is moral? Moral notions imply attributes to substances which exist only in relational duality.