Handbook For The Recently Deceased Quotes

#1. Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.

Beetlejuice

#2. You have played,
(I think)
And broke the toys you were fondest of,
And are a little tired now;
Tired of things that break, and
Just tired.
So am I.

E. E. Cummings

#3. There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

Goldwin Smith

#4. These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world ... And something sooner or later has to give.

Ken Wilber

#5. We can choose to make our love for each other what our lives are really about.

Werner Erhard

#6. I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

Anthony Bourdain

#7. It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death.

Scott Kelly

#8. He was finally understanding that every bit of it had been real! He had been calm in the midst of the mob because he knew he wasn't going to die on Earth.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.