Favourite Quotations (Moderator: Frederique)

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Started by chrysalida

When wounds are healed by love, the scars are beautiful

Started by spiros

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death

Started by spiros

Here. Astride the top of nothingness, I suddenly receive the call of death. Who, in passing, tells me that it’s nothing. Nothing more than the absence of the word itself. Nothing more, and simply nothingness.

Started by spiros

What’s the merit in love play, In the tumult of the limbs, That dies out before ’tis day: Heart on heart, or mouth on mouth, All that mingling of our breath When love longing is but drought For the things come after death?

Started by spiros

And I that have not your faith, how shall I know That in the blinding light beyond the grave We'll find so good a thing as that we have lost? The hourly kindness, the day's common speech, The habitual content of each with each When neither soul nor body has been crossed.

Started by spiros

Do you remember that first night in the woods We lay all night on leaves, and looking up, When the first grey of the dawn awoke the birds, Saw leaves above us? You thought that I still slept, And bending down to kiss me on the eyes, Found they were open. Bend and kiss me now, For it may be the last before our death. And when that's over, we'll be different; Imperishable things, a cloud or a fire. And I know nothing but this body, nothing But that old vehement, bewildering kiss.

Started by spiros

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Started by spiros

Unbeing dead isn't being alive

Started by spiros

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

Started by spiros

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

Started by spiros

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know.

Started by spiros

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Started by spiros

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Started by spiros

When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

Started by spiros

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Started by spiros

Mothers are all slightly insane

Started by spiros

La douceur de la gloire est si grande, qu'à quelque chose qu'on l'attache, même à la mort, on l'aime. -> The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Started by spiros