“If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.” IfsMindDiesLanguagePiecesThousandTortureNightmareNervesOrchestraCorpsesSymbolic Author:Asger Jorn
“Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?” IfsEnoughWholeWantedDiesRealizingForeverPiecesDyingGoes OnFitLuckySomedayWhat IfPuzzlesPuzzle Piece Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.” WantWellsPersonsDiesParentBehindsExistenceBoysPiecesMinutesDyingColdPleaseStandingWindowScaredDinnerKitchenScareNot AfraidWetHelloCandyLitBehind YouRefrigeratorsMoodySuffocating Author:Zachary Schomburg
“"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...] "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."” IfsShouldChildrenSaidEarthMotherDiesAsksSoundDecisionPiecesAuthorityHotFingersAsk MeShould IPalmsObeyingOraclesThings Fall Apart OkonkwoYamsOkonkwo Author:Chinua Achebe
“I just don't do anything fun anymore. But, that's dying, isn't it? I mean, you die in stages, right? You let things go in pieces.” MeanDiesFunPiecesStageDyingLetting Things Go Author:Mel Gibson
“Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!” MeanSelfDiesPoorPiecesFoolSuicideThings To DoHeroismSlaughterBetter Things To Do Author:George Darley
“Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsBelieveMeanLife IsDiesMorningPiecesDrinkShapesWake UpAddictionCricketAlcoholismAlcoholicsShakingSensational Author:Mercedes McCambridge
“The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever.” EarthDiesSunPiecesEternalEndureHospitalsInfinityEnd Of The WorldGiverRailroadsAtman Author:Swami Vivekananda
“Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes. We must give to receive, realize we are blind to see, become simple to be wise, suffer for gain, and die to live. If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world” IfsWorldGivingShouldMeanTwoSoulMightChristianLife IsSufferingDiesChristRealizingSimplePiecesWiseHonorGainsBlindWoodsRichesChristian LifeSavingBridgesParadoxBeing Wise Author:Asahel Nettleton
“I'm old enough to remember the advent of CD. You thought, "What's this piece of space age technology that's in front of me?" Now I ask, "When's the last time you bought a CD?" You see things come and you see things go, and you have to be on your toes and be nimble and stay with it, or you die. It's exciting. I love technology.” EnoughAgeLastsRememberDiesAsksSpaceTechnologyPiecesFrontsExcitingLast TimeToesCdsAdventNimble Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“I think it's terrible to show that to kids. It's - I think you should - if you - if you do a piece where something violent happens and someone dies or is badly injured, you must show the pain.” IfsThinkingShouldShowsHappensKidsPainDiesPiecesTerribleViolentInjured Author:Joe Eszterhas
“When I eat cilantro, it's like someone sprayed perfume down my throat. It closes up my throat, even if there's only a little piece. I like Mexican food, and I'll go out to a Mexican restaurant and tell them, 'Look, I will die if you get cilantro in my food.' Then there's always that one little piece that falls in, and I gag.” IfsLooksLittlesDiesFallPiecesRestaurantsThroatPerfumeMexicanGagsMexican Food Author:Amber Rose