Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change. ”

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. ”

Housing is the number one problem facing the citizens of Israel. ”

Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short. ”

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ”

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. ”

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ”

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy. ”

From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me. ”

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived. ”