“May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference
“May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Source: Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1961 - 1970, Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 126 In: L'amour; as quoted in Dali and Me.
“In the fire of love we live, or pass by many ways,
By unnumbered ways of dream to death.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
---"On death”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Source: Complete Poems and Selected Letters
“Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.”
Joseph Conrad book Under Western Eyes
Pt. IV, ch. 2
Under Western Eyes (1911)
“The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100
Context: The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
