"A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased."

-- Ming-Dao Deng

#Fear Quotes #Funeral Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.”
“The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'”
“I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.”
“Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.”
“Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.”
“At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.”
“I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.”
“It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.”

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