'[T]he thicket of mind and flesh, the one on fire with the awareness of death, of your grave-bound life. [A]nd above all, the awareness of the crumbling, meaningless insubstantiality of life lived only by your own lights. [T]hat burden is what … relationship[s] [can help relieve]'

― @lazenby on Tumblr

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/lazenby/693408280158093312/how-do-i-stop-being-so-horny-for-him-when-weve

#Death #DeathAwareness #MortalityAwareness #HumanCondition #Connection #Relationships #noxp

'A sense of fulfillment, a feeling that life has been well lived, mitigates against the terror of death.'

― Irvin D. Yalom

#Meaning #Purpose #DeathTerror #DeathAnxiety #DeathAwareness #MortalityAwareness #MortalitySalience #Death

'What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.'

― Ernest Becker

#Death #DeathAnxiety #DeathAwareness #MortalityAwareness #ErnestBecker #MortalitySalience #DeathTerror #FearOfDeath

'If there are no rules, no grand designs, nothing we must do, then we are free to do as we choose … But we are unprepared; it is too much to bear, anxiety clamours for release, and, at both individual and social levels, we engage in a frenetic search to shield ourselves from freedom.'

― Irvin D. Yalom

#Freedom #Anxiety #DeathAwareness #Fear #DeathAnxiety #MortalityAwareness #Death #MortalitySalience

'The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it and so we must shrink from being fully alive.'

― Ernest Becker

#DeathAnxiety #FearOfDeath #MortalityAwareness #DeathAwareness #MortalitySalience

'Death acts as a catalyst that can move one from one state of being to a higher one: from a state of wondering about how things are to a state of wonderment that they are. An awareness of death shifts one away from trivial preoccupations and provides life with depth and poignancy and entirely different perspective.'

― Irvin D. Yalom

#MortalityAwareness #DeathAnxiety #Death #Life #DeathAwareness

Dame Deborah James talking about when she moved into end-of-life hospice care at home:

"I am not brave - I am not dignified going towards my death - I am simply a scared girl who is doing something she has no choice in but I know I am grateful for the life that I have had."

— Dame Deborah James 1982-2022

#Death #FearOfDeath #MortalityAwareness #noxp

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/deborah-james-dies-podcaster-and-cancer-campaigner-passes-away-aged-40-12610225

'Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.'

― Arthur Schopenhauer

#SelfEsteem #Ego #MortalityAwareness #noxp