Wilfred Bion Quotes

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

Wilfred Bion

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• Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Family
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Man
  • Words

• The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Hate

• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Death
  • Know

• Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Birth

• Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Business
  • House
  • Death

• I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Death
  • Years
  • Everyday

• I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Media

• It's a rare pro-lifer who is against the death penalty, who's against all war, who favors, you know, all the things people need to flourish and stay healthy in life. They've tied themselves to the Republican Party, which doesn't support any of that.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Life
  • War

• My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.

  

  Larry King
  • She
  • Think
  • Death

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• Death and the dice level all distinctions.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Death
  • Level
  • Dice

• And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Great
  • Men
  • Death

• In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Heart
  • May
  • Death

• We are at a unique moment in history - when a woman’s body is affected, we say the choice is hers; but when a boy’s body is affected, we say the choice is not his - the law requires our 18 year old sons to register for the draft, and therefore potential death-if-needed.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • History
  • Death
  • Law

• Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial...

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Death
  • Black
  • Star

• A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • Death
  • Health

• Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.

  

  Luigi Pirandello
  • Time
  • Gentleman

• Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • Up
  • Country
  • Black

• Whenever I work, I'm never really happy. I'm always second-guessing.

  

  Nell Carter
  • Work
  • Happy

• Honor is a zero sum game.

  

  David Graeber
  • Game
  • Honor

• The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

  

  Wilfred Bion
  • Death
  • Desperate
  • Dissolute