#death

"We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead."

"If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times."

"It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling."

"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die"--- and find that there is no death."

"Leaps of Faith [10w] Like religion, leaps of faith are behind all idealistic movements."

"Crawling Backwards [10w] Crawling backwards is the hardwired wisdom of crabs and survivors."

"Ars Poetica: Write Poetry on a Black Slate Poetry should be written on a black slate of imagination,the poet artfully allowing images to emerge from the dark."

"He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled. Either somebody had really had it in for him or four people had killed him. Or else it was the cleverest suicide I'd ever heard of."

"Sharia Justice [10w] Sharia justice is a lynch mob masquerading as Allah's will."

"Kill Buddha's Hairdresser [10w] I'd like to meet Buddha's hairdresser and shoot the prick."

"I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over."

"Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing."

"When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying."

"The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born."

"Man vs. Chimp Even chimpanzees are toolmakers,but only man has the unique honor of being a Godmaker."

"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little."

"Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously."

"Dogs [10w] Dogs never lie about love,but occasionally fake an orgasm."

"The Bonds That Tie Weak bonding is sharing a common interest;strong bonding is sharing a common enemy."

"Rhyme vs. Reason {Couplet} Do not try to make rhyme of reason,nor reason of rhyme;For the former's too systematic,the latter's too sublime."