967 private quotes tagged death

“The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.” — Stanislav Grof

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“The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.” — Stanislav Grof

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“The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.” — Stanislav Grof

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“If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.” — Stanislav Grof

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“Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.” — Stanislav Grof

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“A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.” — Stanislav Grof

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“Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.” — Stanislav Grof

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“I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.” — Ethel Waters

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“I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.” — Jack Kevorkian

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“We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.” — Daniel Boone

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“People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.” — Polly Toynbee

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“Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.” — Desmond Morris

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“Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.” — Michael Haneke

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“When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.” — Kirstie Alley

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“You've gotta know what death is to know life!” — Jack Kevorkian

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“Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.” — Edvard Munch

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“After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.” — Jaron Lanier

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“Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.” — Taylor Caldwell

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“Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.” — Jack Kevorkian

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“If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.” — Jack Kevorkian

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“We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.” — Thomas Browne

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“It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.” — Wangari Maathai

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“Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.” — Thomas Browne

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“The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.” — Paul Gascoigne

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“It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.” — Travis Barker

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