A Quote by Stevie Smith

But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever.

Stevie Smith

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Consciousness Death Ever Himself Idea Know Large Out Perhaps Person Release Sensation Simply Something Stretch Tired Unknowable Wants

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Stevie Smith
British - Novelist
September 20, 1902 - March 7, 1971

If he loves, he wants to make a relationship out of it immediately! He wants to get married. He wants to create a certain conditioning. He wants to make it a contract. Or he enters a church, or he enters a political party, or he enters into any club and he wants to be structured, he wants to know where he stands in the hierarchy, in what relationship. He wants to have an identity - that 'I am this.' He does not want to remain uncertain. And life is uncertain. Only death is certain.

Rajneesh

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Aiden Wilson Tozer

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C. S. Lewis

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Frank Vogel

You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.

J. J. Watt

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Mark Coleman

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T. B. Joshua

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Dimitar Berbatov

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Shinzen Young

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Nick Hornby

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