"What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?"

-- Frank Herbert

#Death Quotes #Needs Quotes #Fear Of Death Quotes

“Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.”
“You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!”
“In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.”

Source : Adrian Heathfield, Gwen John, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Hugo Glendinning (2004). “Live: art and performance”
“Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay”
“Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.”
“Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?”
“If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.”
“The strangest thing. I came to the end of other people so quickly. Each new person was like a glass of water, and at the beginning I was parched, but then each glass tasted a little worse, the water was grittier, and by the end even the first sip was enough to make me gag, you know?”

Source : Arthur Phillips (2010). “The Song is You”, p.254, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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