Ted Hughes Quotes

But who is stronger than death?Me, evidently.

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• I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Death
  • Loved

• From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • World
  • Death

• 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

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Death
  • Child

• I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Death
  • Education

• I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Death
  • Afraid

• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peaceful

• Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Energy
  • Funny
  • Inside

• The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Death
  • Terror

• I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Want
  • Death

• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Earth

• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Death
  • Food

• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Think
  • Death
  • Me

• I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing for making lists. Oh man, nothing beats turning to a fresh, clean page in a notebook, taking out a nice pen, and starting a list. There's so much potential there. So much to do, so little time! So hey, why not spend some of that time making a list.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Time
  • Why
  • Man

• I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Admit
  • Plato

• 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

• I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Done
  • Death
  • Best

• The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.

  

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • Real
  • Feeling

• Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Myself
  • God's Help

• Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Mom
  • Surprise
  • Comic

• But who is stronger than death?Me, evidently.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Death