Pavlina Tcherneva Quotes & Sayings

In today's world, other people have become an obstacle to our individual pursuits. — Barbara Ehrenreich

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. — Eben Alexander

I read my sentence - steadily ... — Emily Dickinson

Accept that there were some things you could not change and some things that you should. — Amy Lane

I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that. — Brion James

All conscious nature has experiences of pleasure and pain. Man alone can deliberately will the repetition of an experience. And repetition, experienced as such, is at the heart, for good and evil, of his faculty of reasoning, and thus makes possible his language, his art, his morality, and indeed his humanity. Yet it is the enemy of life, for repetition is itself the principle, not of life but of mechanism. — Owen Barfield

Not Really, he said then lit a cigarette and handed it to me. I inhaled. Coughed. Wheezed. Gasped for breath. Coughed again. Considered vomiting. Grabbed the swinging bench, head spinning, and threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped on it, convinced my Great Perhaps did not involve cigarettes. — John Green

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? — Christopher Marlowe