Shane Claiborne Quotes

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.