Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
“Each of them, all unknowing, fairly gives its due to each chance of life, to each germ of death within itself.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“A girl is just like a movie, you want to know what happends next, and how it will end...” — Omer Abazi Copy Share Image
“But here must end the story of my life, And happy were I in my timely death Could all my travels warrant… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We never had anybody who froze to death playing football. You probably had somebody who died from heat stroke playing football. — Bud Grant Copy Share Image
Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Soyinka's Death at Dawn, Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska's Some People come to… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Death must obliterate all memories and affections and ideas and laws, or the awakening in the next world will be amid the… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
“Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“As the Houses tumbled upon the Streets with a great roaring Noise, they cryed out We are undone! We are great Sinners!… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Indeed, taxation and other forms of aggression-through-government are so taken for granted in our culture that one of our most popular sayings… — Mary J. Ruwart Copy Share Image
“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...” — Homer Copy Share Image
“A scar is never ugly. We must see all scars as beauty. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“You could've just let me bleed to death and saved yourself a lot of hassel." Cal scowled at him. "I did it… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live… — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
“Death. From the moment we are born we begin to die. It is a slow march to the final curtain call for… — Angela L. Hansen Copy Share Image
To love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it. when grief weights you like your own flesh… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“To Lucy it was an admirable study, the contrast between the man who threw his whole soul into a certain aim, which… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“I remember when I had the Gospel first preached to me---before I was baptized; I heard a lecture something like this: 'Now,… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
“We stopped you from going, didn't we? Me and Shiva. Our birth?" Don't be silly. Can you imagine me giving up this?"… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“When someone dies they get very cold and very still. That probably sounds obvious, but when it’s your mother it doesn’t feel… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
The death is waiting eagerly for me the next step, my friend. Three years is a matter of too far, I know… — Mohd Aariff Khan Copy Share Image
“Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good;… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Precious to the Lord are the death of His saints." DEATH IS NOT FINAL. God has set eternity in the hearts of… — David Holdsworth Copy Share Image
...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What happened to George Floyd is an abomination. Four Minneapolis policemen used excessive force to cause his death in what appears to… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
“And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in cemeteries: the musicians… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly… — Jeffrey R. Anderson Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent… — Bobby Darin Copy Share Image
