Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. - Whittaker Chambers
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. - Stanislav Grof
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. - Stanislav Grof
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do. - Harold Brodkey
I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year. - Marcia Wallace
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. - Sophocles
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death. - Donald Cargill
The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death. - Stanislav Grof
Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry. - Dinah Shore
Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death. - Henry Reed
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. - Dean Inge
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. - Dag Hammarskjold