Top 31 Quotes About Being Dead To The World
#1. Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.
Richard Bach
#2. I had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it. No one in the world knew where I was, no one had the ability to reach me. It was like being dead, my escape allowing me to taste that tremendous power my mother possessed forever.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#3. It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human beings in the world, and God knows how many millions of people long dead who have been lost to history, all of whom were probably special to someone.
Louis De Bernieres
#4. Heartache wasn't my intention... love was.
Alfa H
#5. I personally feel that a box, far from being a dead end, is an entrance to another world. I don't know to where, but an entrance to somewhere, some other world.
Kobo Abe
#6. Without the new birth, all the doctrinal and liturgical work in the world is just the reorganization of dead materials, instead of what it is described in the Bible as being, which is the organization and discipleship of living materials.
Douglas Wilson
#7. You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.
Jo Walton
#8. Without him, we are nothing, but the paradox is that we, the figments of another mind, will outlive the mind that made us, for once we are thrown into the world, we continue to exist forever, and our stories go on being told, even after we are dead.
Paul Auster
#9. A fact about the world Millie knows for sure: Everyone knows everything about being born, and no one knows anything about being dead.
Brooke Davis
#10. For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign?
Robert Breault
#11. Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves.
Derrick Jensen
#12. How can you even think about being awake in the world, let alone caring about someone?"
"Because they may be gone, but I'm not. I honor their memories by living, not by becoming the walking dead.
Anne Calhoun
#13. We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
Sadie Jones
#14. the bees were on good terms with the unseen world, being the messengers to the dead. She
Margaret Atwood
#15. But dreams are meaningful when you work toward them in the real world. If you merely live within the dreams of other people it's no different from being dead.
Kenji Kamiyama
#16. But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.
Thor Heyerdahl
#17. Your life, sir, is propelled
By a dream of the fear of having nightmares; your love
Is the fear of being alone; your world's history
The fear of a possible leap by a possible antagonist
Out of a possible shadow, or a not-improbable
Skeleton out of your dead-certain cupboard.
Christopher Fry
#18. I buy Coppertone Water Babies in abundance at the airport, SPF 60 or 70. I like being pale; I like looking like a creature from the dead world. I like looking like a ghost.
Jennifer Stone
#19. The world screams, 'Stay down, it's safer.' My soul screams, 'So is being dead.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#20. When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.
Siri Hustvedt
#21. I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
Sean Penn
#22. I believe that to be the world's greatest living
writer
there must be something
terribly wrong with you.
I don't even want to be the world's greatest
dead writer.
just being dead would be fair
enough.
Charles Bukowski
#23. ,dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw.
Chapter I.
Chuck Palahniuk
#24. They were mere permutations of known quantities. There was no roundness or fullness in this world he now inhabited, everything was a dead shape mental arrangement, without life or being.
D.H. Lawrence
#25. I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, The world will never understand.
Nadege Richards
#26. Life is fun. celebrate. If you aren't being kicked, the world probably thinks you are dead anyways.
Parashar Pandya
#27. If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming flesh living on the earth, dying on the cross for the sins of the world, being buried, and being raised from the dead - yours and mine and everybody else's problems will be solved.
Phil Robertson
#28. Only think of Mrs. Holder's being dead! Poor woman, she has done the only thing in the world she could possibly do to make one cease to abuse her.
Jane Austen
#29. Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.
Graham Taylor
#30. In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
Paul Tillich
#31. You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
F. Sionil Jose
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