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Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. -- Walter Russell
Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death. -- Billy Graham
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death. -- John Thorn
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Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day. -- Nick Mancuso
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. -- Judy Garland
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows. -- Penn Jillette
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped. -- Stanislav Grof
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. -- Cecil Beaton
How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! -- Hortense Odlum
Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history! -- Mark Shields
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer. -- J. G. Ballard
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. -- Morgan Freeman
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. -- Albert Camus
We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death. -- Henry Giroux
When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic. -- David Suchet
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality. -- Annie Besant
When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls. -- Michael Huffington
For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it. -- Michael Sheen
Be it life or death, we crave only reality. -- Henry David Thoreau
...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death. -- Richard M. Weaver
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. -- Heraclitus
It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it. -- Andrew Plotkin
Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death. -- Terry Goodkind
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact -- Jacques Ellul
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. -- Ralph Peters
He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death. -- Henry Fielding
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. -- Lewis Mumford
He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend. -- Pittacus Lore
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment. -- Thomas Perez
Bye-bye. I'm off on a journey to the real world. 'Cause within this meta-reality what's real is this - my death. -- Natsuo Kirino
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led. -- Roberto Bolano
There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy. -- Rachel Caine
I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality. -- Janet Evanovich
In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow... -- George MacDonald
If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality. -- Hannu Rajaniemi
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. -- Jesse Jackson
Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death? -- Whitley Strieber
Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going. -- Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro
Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death. -- Guy Sajer
I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories. -- Rose Tremain
He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death. -- Umberto Eco
For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death. -- Jean Baudrillard
Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it. -- Tony Hillerman
Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity. -- Douglas Coupland
Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration. -- Henry Miller
[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force. -- Judith Martin
I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality. -- Raymond Moody
If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death. -- Caroline Myss
The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate. -- Ravi Zacharias
Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it. -- Jane Alison
...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality it has succumbed to it. -- Siegfried Kracauer

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