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“Each stage of your lifeis like petals of a flower... unfolding and opening until it comes to full bloom...You will blossom and then you die...But know that this is not your ending.”
“What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live?Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of ho...”
“When you die you will not bring any possessions, but you will be accompanied by the song up into heaven”
“But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered that it wasn't enough just to think at them: you had to say the words out loud. Bees were the mess...”
“No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.”
“The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.”
“When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.”
“You are given a life, a death. Understand both while living, and before dying. Or you'd have wasted a life, a death.”
“Every night I go to sleep with the hope to wake up next morning. How do I call it? Trust maybe?”
“The only promise life fulfills is its end.”
“Life even at its tiniest molecule is impermanent, transient, unsure and fickle. We try to make it worthwhile not by adding value to it but by improving our social perception, seeking validation in ...”
“What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?”
“Erlendur didnt believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didnt believe in God although hed often read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this wor...”
“Life and death issues are a universal concern. A person can learn about life by investigating the psychological and social aspects related to dying.”
“Here upon earth there is life, and then death,Dawn, and later nightfall,Fire, and the quenching of embers:But why should I not remember that my night is dawn in another part of the world,If the ide...”
“The bell tolls with a painful note afarWhen man drops in the dreadful jaws of deathBut human beasts watch death with mouth ajarWhile lifeless church bell feels the pangs of death”
“Im going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. Ill be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or w...”
“...There is a duty of solidarity among all us impossible, near-invisible people: a duty, out of sheer cussedness, not to disappear completely, simply to ease the conscience of the rest.”
“I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness, to the nant, and it seemed to me that my own death was the only thing left tha...”
“There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we neverdoubt their sincerity.Yet many others search their entire lives ...”
