Lies From A Dying Person S Mind Quotes & Sayings

One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous. — Oswald Spengler

Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalised ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many ... can be recalled by name. But they are not the living-dead. There is a difference. — James W. Loewen

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks. — Mason Cooley

Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alright, the next pretty bird that walks through that door is up for grabs. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

I market for the same reason a pilot keeps his engines running once he is off the ground. — William Wrigley Jr.

You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. — Matt Damon

It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future. — Paulo Coelho

I'll always try to follow my heart into things I love, and modelling is not something I'm dreaming of pursuing forever. — Lily Cole

So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face. — Terence McKenna

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse. — Tom Robbins

Lies of that nature could be waiting around in the corners of a person's mind, hanging like bats in the corners, waiting to take advantage of any kind of darkness. — Alice Munro

Where then shall hope and fear their objects find? — John Ashbery