Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Respect the burden.

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

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

In every parting there is an image of death.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.