Gautama Buddha Quotes
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
Quotes to Explore
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Flowers are happy things.
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
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Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
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It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
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Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
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I've said many times that there only two things to write about: love and death. And when you have children, you remember that the world is full of sharp corners and dangerous things, and suddenly you have these small, soft creatures, which you love in almost painful way.
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Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.
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When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.
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I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.
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Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
