Humanism Death Quotes & Sayings

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals. — Mark Twain

You're too important to just... die. — Veronica Roth

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. — Tippi Hedren

You just need to know that I'm going to get banged up and you can't run and save me, wolf scout. You have to let it happen."
Maximoff daggers a glare to the ceiling, then the mirror. It finally sinks in for him too. That I'm allowed to protect him, but he can't protect me. Not in the same exact way. — Krista Ritchie

I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: "Things will be better when you die," the people of my grandma's generation said as they worked themselves to death. "God wants you to forgive and love those who do you wrong," some people said to shake off the shame of being unable to respond to the abuse they endured. The holier-than-thou faction found comfort in believing, "The rest of y'all are lost because you don't have a personal relationship with God - our God."
But art engages you in the world, not just the world around you but the big world, and not just the big world of Tokyo and Sydney and Johannesburg, but the bigger world of ideas and concepts and feelings of history and humanity. — Wynton Marsalis

There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now. — Greg M. Epstein

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple human life that we all more or less lead, with its crude elementals of nurture and appetite, love and competition, the sunshine of well-being and the inevitable night of death. We each live this tale. Fiction has no reason to be embarrassed about telling the same story again and again, since we all, with infinite variations, experience the same story. — John Updike

As we gather here today," Clinton said, "the fiftieth woman to leave this Earth is orbiting overhead. If we can blast fifty women into space, we will someday launch a woman into the White House. — Rebecca Traister

Let's go to Brunch. What a great idea! Why would you want to sleep in on a Sunday when you can go pay $18 for eggs? Now, you're thinking. — Bill Burr

When people know the desired destination, they're free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there. — Chip Heath

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management. — Andrew Lo

It is really important (to win). It's always like, "You should win; you should win," If I win, I've proven (it) to them ... It'd be pretty cool. — Michelle Wie

One emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Genius requires an audience. — Jacqueline Carey

As late as the summer of 1941, the Atlantic Monthly , then a still respected magazine for literates and edited by White men, published a long article by Albert Jay Nock, in which he proved that the Jews are an Oriental race that is incompatible with ours. He was not punished and the magazine was not destroyed, strange and almost incredible as that seems today. — Revilo P. Oliver

Healing is about choices - choices to treat or not to treat, to
choose one type of intervention over another, or to choose one
method of treatment in conjunction with another. One choice does not eliminate all other possibilities.
You can choose and choose again. The most important
choice is the decision to heal; all else follows. — Wanda Buckner

You must do today what nobody else will do, so tomorrow you can accomplish what others can't. — James Patterson

There are many lay people and scholars alike, both with and without the Muslim community, who feel that the pure orthodox Islam of the fundamentalists could never survive outside the context of its seventh-century Arabian origins. Apply twenty-first-century science, logic, or humanistic reasoning to it and it falls apart.
They believe this is why Islam has always relied so heavily on the threat of death. Question Islam, malign Islam, or leave Islam and you will be killed. It is a totalitarian modus operandi that silences all dissent and examination, thereby protecting the faith from ever having to defend itself. — Brad Thor