I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.
It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...
The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.
Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.
Don't consider my kindness as my weakness, the beast in me is sleeping not dead.
I have outlived a few of the kids that I grew up with in Knowsley Village, Liverpool, UK. Two dropped dead at eighteen years of age from heart attacks! They lived across the road from each other and p...
A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.
