#death

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized. ↗

— Mark Rowlands

#animals #inspiring #memoir #pet #philosophy

Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#morton-s-fork #twisted #death

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#death #his #little #man #much

Righteousness and love, law and grace, life and death, as well as time and eternity all intersect at the cross; displaying a divine wisdom that staggers the imagination and leads the humble heart to bow in thankful adoration. To understand the cross of Christ is to understand the heart of God toward a fallen world He wants to save. ↗

— Steven Cook

#cross #god #jesus-christ #death

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors. ↗

— James Woods

#across #any #attitude #bleeding #death

Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it. ↗

— John Gilling

#death #incident #learn #mold #producing

To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself. ↗

— Tana French

#spin #death

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#useless #death

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#end #fools #life #living #over

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death. ↗

— Russell Shorto

#godlike #minds #transcend #death