A Quote by Miguel de Unamuno

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

Miguel de Unamuno

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Comedy Essence Eternity Just Killing Perhaps Time Tragedy

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Miguel de Unamuno
Spanish - Novelist
September 29, 1864 - December 31, 1936

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.

Arthur Brisbane

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

Taylor Swift

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

John F. Kerry

I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.

Chrissie Hynde

The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but to realize that one is, that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world.] Hence separateness, withdrawal, is no longer necessary. Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence-for he has the perfected eye to see.

Joseph Campbell

If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?

Steven Wright

The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.

Bob Hawke

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life. We cannot support any act of killing; no killing can be justified. But not to kill is not enough ... If in your thinking you allow the killing to go on, you also break this precept. We must be determined not to condone killing, even in our minds.

Nhat Hanh

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

Stanislaw Lem

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

Mahatma Gandhi

Does killing time damage eternity?

George Carlin

Killing time. Its a very crass and breezy expression when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

Christopher

Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!

Victoria Hanley

[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is the knowledge that all flows and that everything must change. The growing man is Man Alive, and his "philosophy" must grow, must flow, with him. . . . the man too fixed today, unfixed tomorrow - and his body of beliefs is nothing but a series of fixations.