“Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.” PeopleWorldDiesForceUnderstandingBornReincarnationRebirthAnother World Author:Frederick Lenz
“The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic ways. As it went dead and empty of the old life it became a place where no one wanted to live. In our right minds we want to seek out places that reek of complexity. Our drive to industrialize soured and undercut the intimacies that drew most people to country life in the first place.” PeopleWayWantMindFirstsCountryWantedDiesUnderstandingLandEmptyComplexesIntimacyComplexityValleysEcologyFranticCountry LifeOld LifeUndercut Author:William Kittredge
“What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?” ThinkingHelpingAgeDiesUnderstandingSeriousAgingClockCognitionNo Turning BackUnderstanding You Author:Goldie
“A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.” IfsMenShouldWellsMayEnoughEarthPoliticalDiesNamesUnderstandingMoralEnemyProudKingsProtectToolsPropertySecureMortalsHonourBe ProudEssaysCornStrawsScarecrow Author:Alexander Pope
“Every time another tribe becomes extinct and their language dies, another way of life and another way of understanding the world disappears forever. Even if it has been painstakingly studied and recorded, a language without a people to speak - it means little. A language can only live if its people live, and if today's uncontacted tribes are to have a future, we must respect their right to choose their own way of life.” PeopleIfsWorldWayMeanLittlesHas BeensTodayDiesSpeakLanguageUnderstandingForeverDisappearTribesAnother WayUnderstanding The World Author:Stephen Corry
“... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.” PeopleKnowsFirstsSufferingDiesUnderstandingStepsMortalityFirst Steps Author:Gertrude Diamant
“My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.” ThinkingBodyLife IsDiesUnderstandingAfterlifeExistential Author:David Cronenberg
“Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.” WayWantFeelingsGovernmentTogetherDiesUnderstandingReligiousHeardStreetsPolicyLondonCertaintyWillingnessSpontaneityMischiefRevoltPsychosisTwinklingGovernment PolicyTricksters Author:Russell Brand
“To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.” WorldLastsFacesDiesFallUnderstandingPleasureSunForeverKnowingAmountAdultsBelovedFashionablePassing AwayMockeryPetalsSavoring Author:Amy Bloom
“A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.” WorldMayChildrenUsedPoetryDiesLiteratureLanguageUnderstandingSoundTearsIllShedDollsHeartfeltScrapRagsBundlesChildren Playing Author:Velimir Khlebnikov
“Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.” MeanDiesFallUnderstandingBreakGoneForeverSawsEmptyEssenceFundamentalsSoloCliffsParadigm Author:Dean Potter