"Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention."
Carsten Jensen
"I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur."
Rick Yancey
"I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn."
Barbara Hall
"Surfers have the most attitude."
Shaun White
"Within weeks of my arrival in New York, I was someone else, not because there had been a revolution in my psychological makeup or any trauma. It was simply this: people saw me in a light in which I had never been seen before."
Siri Hustvedt
"I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell."
Rudyard Kipling
"We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it."
Frank A. Clark
"Death loves death, not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them; it is a comfort to learn you are not alone in the kiln, in the grave."
Ray Bradbury
"Sometimes when you don’t expect to meet someone, apparently they will appear in front of you, so many times."
Nina Ardianti
"Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating."
Andrew Cohen
"Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish."
Shah Asad Rizvi
"Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older."
Audrey Niffenegger
"My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective."
Rufus Sewell
"It's a strange poverty of the English language, and indeed, of many other languages, that we use this same word, 'depression' to describe how a kid feels when it rains on his birthday, and to describe how somebody feels the minute before they commit suicide."
Andrew Solomon
"Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough."
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