Edwin S. Shneidman Quotes

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.

Edwin S. Shneidman

• Memories
• Profound
• Loss
• Grieving
• Mourning

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• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • America
  • Land

• Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Brainy

• We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Art
  • Purpose
  • Performance

• I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Ideas

• I can't believe this is happening I can't believe all these people are sniffing each other & backing away teeth grinning hair raised, growling, here in the slaughtered wind

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hair

• On the surface of the water, a midge vanishes into a hungry ripple. I'm not ready yet. He wonders why, at his age and having come so far, he still feels that. The culmination of his luck is that he will never feel any other way.

  

  Clive James
  • Why
  • Age
  • Water

• Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Up

• Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Star

• Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Peace
  • Laughter

• A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl's room.

  

  Phoebe Cates
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Tea

• New York was scary, coming from the Midwest. At first, I thought I'd come in all cocky, like, 'I'm gonna bring this town to its knees!' After about a month, I was like, 'I wanna go home.'

  

  Chris Farley
  • Home
  • Scary
  • Cocky

• You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • Believe

• Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Up
  • Time
  • Night

• We want to do one thing and do it really well. For us, that's communications between people who are friends and relatives.

  

  Jan Koum
  • People
  • Friends

• The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I very much believe in teaching young people about philanthropy, and to give back.

  

  Lynn Schusterman
  • People
  • Believe

• If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Stage
  • Performance
  • Ruined

• The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Hair
  • Loose
  • Mourning

• It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.

  

  David Bowie
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Memories

• I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

  

  Andrew Buchan
  • Life

• Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.

  

  Edwin S. Shneidman
  • Memories
  • Profound
  • Loss