#yin

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #yin




When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.


Lauren DeStefano


#dying #life #sever #wither #death

Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.


George Saunders


#fiction #business

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#beware #dead #death #let us #life

How dare you touch my cookies, you bastard!” Jason said in utter disgust before popping the cookie into his mouth and heading back to his house. “Damn those looked good, too,” Brad grumbled. Haley sighed. “Don’t worry I have a second plate on my counter.” The words were barely out of her mouth when Jason abruptly changed course and headed towards her house. “Well, there was,” she said, watching Jason walk into her house like he owned it. A minute later he walked out of her house, carrying both plates and the gallon of milk she had in her fridge. He headed back to his house, but not before he glared at Brad. “You cookie thieving bastard,” they heard him mutter. Brad rolled his eyes, chuckling. “And people wonder how I lost weight rooming with him in college.


R.L. Mathewson


#playing-for-keeps #rl-mathewson #change

Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.


Sandy Fussell


#funerals #life #death

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.


Ron Suskind


#lobbying #education

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.


J.M. Barrie


#faith #flying #inspirational #profound #wings

Soon he was picturing little girls with mischievous green eyes and pigtails asking him to play tea. Of course he'd bring real food to the tea party. None of that pretend food bullshit for his little girls. By the time Haley had stopped for breakfast he'd been calmer about everything. He'd already decided to ignore that breakup nonsense. It was just ridiculous and he knew sooner or later Haley would realize that so they could get started on making their all girl baseball team.


R.L. Mathewson


#playing-for-keeps #rl-mathewson #food

She ran because she had no other choice. She feared what would happen if she dared to stop. There was no time to think. There was barely any time for her to breathe. On her broken ankle, she ran. With her bruised arms, she ran. With her bleeding sides, she ran because she knew today was the day she was meant to die.


Judyann McCole


#fight #fighting-evil #fighting-to-survive #death

Are you afraid of dying?" "I was at first, maybe I still am a little bit. But it's not death that scares me so much as not being alive anymore. It's missing all the things that I would have seen if I hadn't gotten AIDS. Things like my daughter's graduation, her wedding, my grandchildren. I'll never see those things, and that makes me sad.


Deanna Lynn Sletten


#death #dying #fear #death