Rumi Quotes
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
Rumi
Quotes to Explore
If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
Caitlin Doughty
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
J. G. Ballard
He that fears death, or mourns it, in the just, Shows of the resurrection little trust.
Ben Jonson
Death was kind of a boisterous egomaniac that needed no encouragement.
Edward St Aubyn
Are we not still guilty, if to a less violent degree, of recklessness, of improvidence with regard to our future and our humanity? War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
Aung San Suu Kyi
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
Sting
The Police
Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.
Pauly Shore
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
Desiderius Erasmus
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
Mary Shelley
There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.
Jane Lynch
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.
Carol P. Christ
