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Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

Acts of violence– Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death–and the meaninglessness of killing.
– Dag Hammarskjld

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  1. Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. – Dag Hammarskjld
  2. Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. – Dag Hammarskjld
  3. Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense–what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known. – Dag Hammarskjld
  4. He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion. – Dag Hammarskjld
  5. Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot. – Dag Hammarskjld
  6. Doffing the ego’ssafe glory, he findshis naked reality. – Dag Hammarskjld
  7. Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. – Dag Hammarskjld
  8. What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. – Dag Hammarskjld
  9. This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal. – Dag Hammarskjld
  10. His moral lectureblazed with hate.What could have driven a child that far? – Dag Hammarskjld
  11. Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. – Dag Hammarskjld
  12. My home drove meinto the wilderness.Few look for me. Few hear me. – Dag Hammarskjld
  13. Apes. The moon woke them–round the world’s navel revolvedprayer wheels of steps. – Dag Hammarskjld
  14. i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time. – John Green
  15. i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time – John Green
  16. i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time. – John Green
  17. I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time. – John Green
  18. The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done – these are traits of the human race at large. – Mark Twain
  19. Killing is killing, whether done for duty, profit or fun – Richard Ramirez
  20. A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  21. the paradox of human ignorance is the most intriguing paradox of nature – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  22. Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. – Ernest Becker
  23. Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. – Idries Shah
  24. Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea – Stewart Friedman
  25. A Large-Scale Revolution can not happen without a higher-awareness to seek Personal Growth on an individual level. – Matthew Donnelly
  26. Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. – Edmund Beecher Wilson
  27. But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness? – Philip Yancey
  28. It occurs to me that if I don’t sort myself out soon I will die of meaninglessness. That is the price of avoiding the things I find troubling. – Kyo Maclear
  29. Given Loughner’s obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too. – Walter Kirn
  30. What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct. – Marty Rubin
  31. And Castle nodded sagely. ‘So this is a picture of the meaninglessness of it all! I couldn’t agree – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  32. Your vile and bitter diatribes only serve to show how vile and bitter you must be. – CS Woolley
  33. Don’t deny the past. Remember everything. If you’re bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene. – Joy Kogawa
  34. It doesn’t matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better past today is what matters. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  35. Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels. – Laini Taylor
  36. Better choose silence than bitter words which shall leave nothing but bitter footprints – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  37. Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous. – Claude LviStrauss
  38. I’m glad she left me the kids. I’d be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I’m only bitter. – Steven Herrick
  39. Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility. – Christopher Morley
  40. The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man? – George Orwell

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