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“The world is always dying and always coming back to life. Tide and pulse, and with the turn of the tide a touch of mystery.”

Book:The Wisdom of the Heart

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“Sherrie described atheism as a positive system of belief—one based on data, exploration and observation rather than scripture, creed and prayer. Atheists believe that human life is a chemical phenomenon, that our first parents were super-novas that happened billions of years ago—that humans are inexplicable miracles in a universe of structured chaos. Atheists believe that when we die, we will turn into organic debris which will continue cycling for billions of years in various incarnations. Sherrie explained that atheists appreciate life unfathomably because it is going to end. No one who takes atheism seriously dies without hope.”

Philosophy Hope Atheism Dying Atheist Science And Religion Science Vs Religion Carl Sagan Richard Dawkins Caitlin Moran

Book:Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion

Source: Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion

“It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain. Without this accomplishment, the natural expectation and desire of such a state, were but a fallacy in nature; unsatisfied considerators would quarrel the justice of their constitutions, and rest content that Adam had fallen lower; whereby, by knowing no other original, and deeper ignorance of themselves, they might have enjoyed the happiness of inferior creatures, who in tranquillity possess their constitutions, as having not the apprehension to deplore their own natures, and, being framed below the circumference of these hopes, or cognition of better being, the wisdom of God hath necessitated their contentment: but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last to tell us, we are more than our present selves, and evacuate such hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments.”

Death Religion Dying Melancholy Afterlife

Book:Urne Burial

Source: Urne Burial

“It’s not dying I’m afraid of. It’s dying without ever having lived that I’m afraid of.”

Fear Dying Living Legacy Surviving Afraid Thriving Existing

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Meditation is a death, a death of the ego. A meditator has to pass through a death. Meditation is the art of learning to die consciously. The spiritual teacher gives you meditation to die and to be reborn.”

Death Consciousness Meditation Dying Ego Reborn

Book:When the Drop becomes the Ocean

Source: When the Drop becomes the Ocean

“There is more to life than making money and fucking someone else. If you are scared of dying, then you have lots of regrets.”

Life Death Life Lessons Life Quotes Money Dying Regret Scared Fucking

Author:Kambiz Shabankare

“Don't think about it. However it was it is over now. However it was or whereever it was. He is not lying there any more. He is nowhere now. Nowhere at all. Don't think about it.”

Death Loss Grief Dying Memory

Book:Moon Tiger

Source: Moon Tiger

“There are many cells in your body that are dying as you read these words. Fifty to seventy billion cells die each day in the average human adult. You are too busy to organise funerals for all of them! At the very same time, new cells are being born, and you don't have the time to sing Happy Birthday to them. If old cells don't die, there's no chance for new cells to be born. So death is a very good thing. It's very crucial for birth. You are undergoing birth and death in this very moment.”

Life Death Dying Birth Living Mortality

Book:No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

Source: No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

“But someone I know is dying-- And though one might say glibly, "everyone is," The different pace makes the difference absolute.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Mourning

Author:Robert Pinsky

“What I want you to do for me is this: I want to understand certain things and tell them to others. To do it, I have to get them right, so they are hard to resist. Stay with me until I can do this. Afterwards, you can go where you want.”

Death Poetry Dying Poem Illness Breathing Breath

Author:Kenneth Koch

“I've felt it for some time now, closing around me like the jaws of a gigantic flower. Isn't that a peculiar analogy? It feels that way, though. It has a certain vegetable inevitability. Think of the Venus flytrap. Think of kudzu choking a forest. It's a sort of juicy, green, thriving process. Toward, well, you know. The green silence. Isn't it funny that, even now, it's difficult to say the word 'death'?”

Death Dying Illness The Hours

Book:The Hours

Source: The Hours

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