“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“I don't think we are cut out to be evil sorcerers, brothers," said Fentongoose. "If we were truly evil, we would not… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
“I can distinctly hear the beatings of the wings of the angel of death,” it went, in improbably elegant English, which Litvinenko… — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
“General Studies Question: Redundancy is often an unpleasant and unexpected event in someone's life. Give two examples of unexpected life events. Answer:… — Richard Benson Copy Share Image
“Cookery simulates the disguise of medicine, and pretends to know what food is the best for the body; and if the physician… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Epidemiologic theory. As a phrase, it sounds at once dry and arcane.Yet, in reality, it is vital and engaging. Epidemiologic theory is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of… — Gamal Abdel Nasser Copy Share Image
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
“Death may in some traditions be a vivid experience, but within much of the white tradition it is a blank that may… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“Being Tranquil didn't sound so bad to him. He'd been terrified of being swallowed up by the darkness for so long it… — David Gaider Copy Share Image
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Today, men, I ask you your lives." "I ask of you your lives and your courage. I ask of your faith, your… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I basically learned that you must get out of your losses immediately. It's not merely a matter of how much you can… — Randy McKay Copy Share Image
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Across town, Mr. Henderson—the man who had heard the banshee’s silent scream—spent the evening dying. To be more accurate, he spent a… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
“Often I would hear other people ask, “When will I be normal again?” What you don’t often hear is a blunt truth:… — Michelle Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“Hollywood was merely a specialized bank—a consortium of large financial entities that hired talent, almost always for a flat rate, ordered that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I wanted to say something good, something better, something real. I wanted to say I know what it’s like to lose yourself.… — Misha Horne Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
“Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness - for then The spirits of the dead who stood In… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Get off," she said. "Get off now." Before its too late, and I decide to celebrate a narrow escape from death in… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is… — Bernard Membe Copy Share Image
“The extraterrestrials finally understood the impact of their theories, stereotypes, and logical fallacies, but, too traumatized by the thought of death, they… — Lucy Carter Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Dying, in other words — like combat, like becoming a parent, like any transformative life event — doesn’t always reveal or intensify… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“For every sentient being is God—omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, and eternal—pretending with the utmost sincerity and determination to be otherwise, to be a… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“The Chorus Line: A Rope-Jumping Rhyme we are the maids the ones you killed the ones you failed we danced in air… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is… — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
“The capitalist mind perceives the world purely in terms of material resources to be used for its benefit, to increase productivity and… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“Rojer nodded, but his eye grew wet. Leesha squeezed his hand. "Herb Gatherers see death often," she told him. "No one, no… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
I used to think that you see so many people dying. But now I see it the way my daddy told me.… — Johnnie Rose II Copy Share Image
“An empty bottle of Jack is almost just as beautiful as a new and unopened bottle...in the same sense as looking down… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
Ask anyone where they were when they heard of Diana's death, and they won't hesitate, because nobody can forget. Along with 9/11,… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“You Hang on to your pain like it means something; like it's worth something. Well, let me tell you, it's not worth… — Nancy Oliver Copy Share Image
Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“Beyond that he was a ghost of Uganda; in this nation of his birth he was under a death sentence for the… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
