"It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy."

-- Edward Abbey

#Tragedy Quotes #Dying Quotes #Tragic Quotes

“To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.”
“The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. May 2, 2001.
“My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat--a boat which, to revert to Neurath's figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.”
“I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.”
“You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.”
“Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.”

Source : Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt
“Those who have been intoxicated with power... canÂ never willingly abandon it.”
“People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don't you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness.”

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