“When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property.” PersonsDiesBornPrinciplesMarriedDiedPropertyContraryEngagedResentPrecautionEncroachment Author:John Galsworthy
“And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. Into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. It is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.” GivingKindMayPersonsChristianSpiritNightDiesTurnsHopeNaturalAliveEternityContraryHopelessnessDescribing Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die” WorldPersonsSelfDiesFoundCreaturesContraryDependentDoomedImmediacy Author:Roberto Unger
“Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.” HeartDoeMovingDiesAchieveMalesContraryInitiation Author:Robert Bly