24 quotes found
“Everything was on television last night”
“Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.”
“I am the false character that follows the name around.”
“The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.”
“I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.”
“I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.”
“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”
“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and...”
“When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numb...”
“Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing”
“Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy delicatessens with slanted display cabinets full of trays that hold soft wet lumpy matter in pal...”
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the steep glide began, people rose, fell, collided, sw...”
“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers plots, narrative plots, plots that are part of childrens games. We edge nearer death every ti...”
“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes. There must al...”
“Make no mistake. I take these children seriously. It is not possible to see too much in them, to overindulge your causal gift for the study of character. It is all there, in full force, charged wav...”
“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although ...”
“Mans guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.”
“We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the sign started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED ...”
“People get bitten. But I won't.' I found myself saying, 'You will, you will. These snakes don't know you find death inconceivable. They don't know you're young and strong and you think death applie...”
“Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?”
“Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors that people accidentally...”
