To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.
George EliotTags: human-condition
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
AberjhaniTags: life politics books pain poetry compassion writing literature spirituality human-condition leadership poet poems poem-in-your-pocket-day poetry-life national-poetry-month religions human-rights-day aberjhani global-village world-poetry-day poets-and-poetry national-history-day famous-poets quotes-about-poetry quotes-about-poets celebrated-poets modern-poets unknown-poets world-communities
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David EaglemanTags: life death memory human-condition existentialism
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
José SaramagoTags: life death religion human human-condition existentialism
We are gods with anuses.
Ernest BeckerTags: humor religion psychology human-condition existentialism philosofy
It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.
Isaac AsimovTags: human-condition
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.
Wallace StegnerTags: humanity society change civilization revolution human-condition growth rebellion
We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories. The passion to write constantly strips this vanity aside and forces us to confront that loneliness and the uncertainty with which human beings, in the end, live and die.
Boria SaxTags: writers human-condition writers-on-writing
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
AristotleTags: human-condition desire sisyphus
They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from it's fellows.
Stephen KingTags: human-condition
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