Quotes with after-life

Quotes 3101 till 3120 of 5007.

  • Raoul Vaneigem People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Edward Franklin Albee III People would rather sleep their way through life than stay awake for it.
    Edward Franklin Albee III
    American playwright (1928 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Barry Marshall Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • John Banville Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
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    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Joseph Conrad Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bill Forsyth Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Brendan Myers Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Margaret Oliphant Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Newt Gingrich Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
    Newt Gingrich
    American statesman and author (1943 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Hardy Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Charles Dickens Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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