Quotes by Merton, Thomas

We do not exist for ourselves... >>

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But >>

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouche >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. >>

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the b >>

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already thre >>

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas