Shneidman Death Quotes

#1. I can only do what I can do.

Casey Stoner

#2. Because I don't understand Him. Why He is, who He is, or how He is. And Maurice tells me I am quite intelligent. I think God must be very intelligent to be so much more intelligent than I am. To give me no clues. No certainties. No sights. No reasons. No motives.

John Fowles

#3. [Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

Wallace Stegner

#4. When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.

Rahm Emanuel

#5. Oh, become nothing in deep reality, and, as a worker, study only one thing - to become poorer and lower and more helpless, that Christ may work all in you.

Andrew Murray

#6. A child cannot, thank Heaven, know how vast and how merciless is the nature of power, with what unbelievable cruelty people treat each other.

James Baldwin

#7. Death
some form of termination
is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

Edwin S. Shneidman

#8. Maybe there's a place for a rebel ghost within the Order's ranks after all." - Lucan

Lara Adrian

#9. When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

Amelie Mauresmo

#10. And yet is not this transitoriness a reminder that challenges us to make the best possible use of each moment of our lives? It certainly is, and hence my imperative: Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. In

Viktor E. Frankl

#11. I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

Howard Nemerov

#12. I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

Sam Waterston