Inevitability Of Death Quotes

• Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

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  Chester Himes

  Life   Death   Knowledge  

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• In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's why Kierkegaard and Kafka began to make sense to me when I was very, very young - that radical sense fragility of life and inevitability of death; those trucks coming, if the truck came at a same time I was on the bridge, I was in the creek -my body would be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

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  Cornel West

  Blessed   California   Inevitability Of Death  

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble.

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  Richard P. Feynman

  Health   Inevitability Of Death   Matter  

  1471

• People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

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  Dionne Brand

  Believe   Passion   Inevitability Of Death  

  Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.18, Vintage Canada

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• But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

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  Richard P. Feynman

  Inevitability Of Death   Biology   Found  

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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• Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.

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  Cornel West

  Loneliness   Heart   Sadness  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings

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  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring   Men   Inevitability Of Death  

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• The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

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  Italo Calvino

  Inevitability Of Death   Two   Continuity Of Life  

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.259, Random House

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