Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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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'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
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Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.
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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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If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
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I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
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The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Thunder-spasms the waking be Into Life from Apathy: Life, not Death, is in the gale, - Let the coming Doom prevail!
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And the world said, Child, you will not be missed.You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road;Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you:Man is the judgment of the world.
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
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The Bush Doctrine is a prescription for permanent war for permanent peace, though wars are the death of republics.
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But who is stronger than death?Me, evidently.
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Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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'What do we know? What do we really know? He licks his dried cracked lips. We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foreknowledge of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement. I challenge that statement. With what? I don't know.'
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I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right.
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I don't know if it sounds arrogant or whatever, but I'm just trying to get better numbers than last year.
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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
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Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.
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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
