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

• Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Death

• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  

  Peter Abelard
  • World
  • God
  • Death

• Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • Death
  • Waiting

• The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • People
  • Road
  • Curiosity

• My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going to do some events for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

  

  J. R. Bourne
  • She
  • Years
  • Healthy

• My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

  

  Steve Carlton
  • League
  • Debut
  • Stadium

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

  

  Wilfred Bion
  • Death
  • Desperate
  • Dissolute