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Letter "D" » Death and dying
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«Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
| About:
Art,
Death and dying,
Life
| Keywords:
concerns, continues, genuine, john, meditates, resembles, revelation, Revelation of, St. John, St John, unending
«An answer is always a form of death.»
«A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death»
Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
(Educator)
| About:
Civilization,
Controversy,
Death and dying
| Keywords:
continuous, controversy, issues, on the way, totalitarianism
«A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.»
«A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Past,
Time
| Keywords:
rejects, remembered, satisfactions, tolerates
«As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Death and dying,
Happiness,
Motivational
| Keywords:
brings, Happy Days, sleep, sleep out, sleep over, spent, The Happiest Days
«As Calcutta smells of death and Bombay of Money, Bangkok smells of sex, but this sexual aroma is mingled with the sharper whiffs of sex and money»
«As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Death and dying,
Dreams
| Keywords:
satisfaction, satisfactions
«At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
bathroom, closest, dinner, dinner party, formal, nearest, seated
«As men, we are all equal in the presence of death»
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