“The missing remained missing and the portraits couldn't change that. But when Akhmed slid the finished portrait across the desk and the… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time… — Saul David Copy Share Image
“Farewell, my dearest. You have but gone ahead... but I shall follow, and run, at last, again into your arms... and laugh… — Joan Walsh Anglund Copy Share Image
“We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“[T]he death penalty dehumanizes everyone on both sides of the equation. It dimishes everyone it touches. It is something we just shouldn't… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“Death is really a matter of perspective. So many people say "sorry for your loss" when a special one dies, but I… — Comic Strip Mama Copy Share Image
Its natural to have a deep sense of loss when someone close to us dies.But we should also look for ways to… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings… — Horace Copy Share Image
You got to find a woman that can cook. How you gonna last 50 or 60 yrs?.. Most people say, well we'll… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
“We cannot fight or conquer our feelings of grief, anger, pain, or loss. Just like we cannot fight or conquer nature. We… — Elena Levon Copy Share Image
“It is common for the partner to die shortly after the death of their significant other. They generally have similar medical conditions,… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Now, as they pressured perfect footprints into the snow that had been accumulating all day, his father took Harry's hand. "Heshele, how… — Amram Ducovny Copy Share Image
“The question of desirable grief and pain or the necessity for it must also be faced. [Are] growth and self-fulfillment possible at… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is only when we realize and celebrate the intrinsic value of every human life that celebrity - true celebrity -… — Nancy Cobb Copy Share Image
“At birth we become elements to entity, upon death the entity reverts to elements. Make sure to make your trip mean something,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If it had only been for the immortality gene, humanity would have eventually managed to turn it back on. At one point… — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the… — Paula Wall Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Laughter. Yes, laughter is the Zen attitude towards death and towards life too, because life and death are not separate. Whatsoever is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“We can lay down our lives for those we love not by physically dying for them but rather by living for them—giving… — Claudio R.M. Costa Copy Share Image
People are born, they have a limited amount of time going around thinking life is dandy but then, inevitably, tragedy strikes and… — Dominic West Copy Share Image
“The more love that fell your way, the more sorrow will befall you; if you had abstained from love, you would now… — Johannes von Saaz Copy Share Image
“For all the glamour of living forever … immortality is really just a long curse. Finite life is precious; it’s fleeting and… — Chelsea Fine Copy Share Image
Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds… — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
“Nate liked Death. Death was in the clothes that he wore and the music he listened to. He would wrap himself in… — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes.… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this… — Isaac Jogues Copy Share Image
The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy… — Jonathan Davis Copy Share Image
Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down.… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Growing up I learned the first breath I take took me closer to my last breath. It's ok not to fear death… — Jake Roberts Copy Share Image
“I want to write a book called, “Son, I’m dying,” where I visualize the day my estranged dad calls me out of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
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