The problem is that most people, most of the time, are desperate to believe ridiculous and divisive ideas for patently emotional reasons,and while rarely explicit what they're really worried about is death
Sam HarrisTag: death religion irrationality
Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.
Rachel KleinTag: death suicide panic depression diary-entry dying adolescence journal unhappy teen-angst self-harm rachel-klein sad-girl the-moth-diaries
Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.
Stephen GroszDon't you love to look at coffins? I've always enjoyed looking at one now and then. I think of a coffin as an absolutely lovely piece of furniture, even when it's empty, and if there's someone lying in it, it's really quite sublime in my eyes.
Thomas MannThere has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost loved one.
Steve MaraboliTag: life death missing lost-loved-one
I miss you so much! And while this hole in my heart will never be filled again, I find comfort knowing that you are nestled within the loving embrace of God… and that I was blessed to know you… even if only for a little while.
Steve MaraboliTag: god death heaven sad gratitude
In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I mean, these days, character isn't destiny any more. Economy is destiny. Ideology is destiny. Bombs are destiny. What does a famine, a gas chamber, a grenade care how you lived your life? Crisis comes, death comes, and your pathetic individual self doesn't have a thing to do with it, only to suffer the effects.
Salman RushdieI can see where
creation often
stops while the
body still lives
and often
does not care
to.
the death of life
before life
dies.
Tag: life death indifference creation dying
I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me. I don't believe in life after death, channeled chat rooms with the dead, reincarnation, telekinesis or any miracles but the miracle of life and consciousness, which again strike me as miracles in nearly obscene abundance. I believe that the universe abides by the laws of physics, some of which are known, others of which will surely be discovered, but even if they aren't, that will simply be a result, as my colleague George Johnson put it, of our brains having evolved for life on this one little planet and thus being inevitably limited. I'm convinced that the world as we see it was shaped by the again genuinely miraculous, let's even say transcendent, hand of evolution through natural selection.
Natalie AngierTag: science death atheism universe magic atheist evolution natural-selection
Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
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