If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“You want to know what death is! I’ll tell you what it is—death is the living forgetting you! What you smell like… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“I brought about the death of Albus Dumbledore!” “You thought you did,” said Harry, “but you were wrong.” For the first time,… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life… It can inspire us to decide… — Candy Lightner Copy Share Image
“Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“Surely I am in many things different from many mortals, for in my judgment, whatever man being unjust, is deeply skilled in… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Quran 3:185: » Every soul will taste of death. And ye will be paid on the Day of Resurrection only that which… — Aicha Zoubair Copy Share Image
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio Ramón Ribeyro used… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing…… — Avi Copy Share Image
“Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass grows The West Wind goes walking, and about the walls it goes.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Each day we trudge through factory gates and lean into our traces and forget. Death and worse are easily dismissed over dram… — Simon Strantzas Copy Share Image
“They have seen Death and ultimate defeat, and yet they would not in despair retreat, but oft to victory have tuned the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
The liberals' present furor over the CIA's covert operations against al-Qaida suggests that they harbor a death wish not only for themselves… — Bob Tyrrell Copy Share Image
“If dust disperses through the air it behaves like an explosive gas -- any spark can ignite a particle, which then sets… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
From the beginning we never fit in anywhere. We played shows with death metal, reggae, hip-hop artists and even feminist poets. We… — Gym Class Heroes Copy Share Image
Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
You said I was a flower beginning to bloom and I told you I was a flower beginning to die. You asked,''Why?''… — Jasmine Laura Copy Share Image
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“In a dying civilisation, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician but of the man with the best beside… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
“When my first wife died long ago, in Ethiopia, I thought I knew grief. But until you have witnessed the death of… — Tananarive Due Copy Share Image
Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Soon after you're dead - we're not sure how long - but not long, you'll be united with the most ecstatic love… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
“protective cocoon. That is not living, but is premature death. The way to deal with danger is to know approximately how much… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“As darkness falls and sleep pulls at me, I wonder, not for the first time, about life and death. Both are real… — Cristelle Comby Copy Share Image
I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Dazed and Confused: The Series' would have… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
“But at least he’d died at home and not some hospice. Who in their right mind wanted to die among the dying?… — Sue Margolis Copy Share Image
“Natural law has decreed it so. Isn't death as much a part of the flow as life? Why fight it? Because maybe… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
“Once I could imagine my soul I could imagine my death. When I imagined my death my soul died. This I remember… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“Discipline I am old and I have had more than my share of good and bad. I've had love and sorrow, seen… — Meryl Gordon Copy Share Image
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image
I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys;… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image