The potential biographies of those who die young possess the mystic dignity of a headless statue, the poetry of enigmatic passages in an unfinished or mutilated manuscript, unburdened with contrived or banal endings.
Life and death issues are a universal concern. A person can learn about life by investigating the psychological and social aspects related to dying.
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Kilroy J. Oldster
Each stage of your lifeis like petals of a flower... unfolding and opening until it comes to full bloom... You will blossom and then you die... But know that this is not your ending.
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Summerlyn Guthrie
The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.
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Ted Dekker
What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live? Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of hopelessness so intense they just gave up fighting?
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Heidi R. Kling
When you die you will not bring any possessions, but you will be accompanied by the song up into heaven…
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Maria Herliana
More Quotes By Anthony Powell
An exceedingly well-informed report, ' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.
For some reason, the sight of snow descending on fire always makes me think of the ancient world — legionaries in sheepskin warming themselves at a brazier: mountain altars where offerings glow between wintry pillars; centaurs with torches cantering beside a frozen sea — scattered,...
Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial- affairs, I asked whether it was not true that she had married Bob Duport. She nodded; not exactly conveying, it seemed to me, that by some happy chance their union had...
Books do furnish a room.
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.
