“doves exist, dreamers, and dolls; killers exist, and doves, and doves; haze, dioxin, and days; days exist, days and death; and poems… — Inger Christensen Copy Share Image
A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature… — William Jay Copy Share Image
If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose. Drinking and smoking over and… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I also clung to the archaic, and perhaps slightly naïve belief that everything happened for a reason. I hadn’t cheated death so… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“I look at the cross of Christ. There I see that sin is so black and damnable, that nothing but the blood… — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree... The CIA has become a death squad… — Medea Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The appearance of the settler has meant in the terms of syncretism the death of the aboriginal society, cultural lethargy, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He felt split in two, one crazy man eating hair and one rational man watching a crazy man eat hair. He chewed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“No one fears death more than immortals. Humans adjust to their lot in life little bits at a time. They’re introduced to… — Kaitlin Bevis Copy Share Image
“People say there's the Angel of Life and the Angel of Death, but there's another one, too. The one who walks among… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“the strategic situation foreseen by Robert Heinlein in the death dust story was like “a duel in a vestibule with flamethrowers,” anticipating… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“Not all sacrifices involve death, child. As the Enapay used to say, the noblest sacrifice of all is to open you heart… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands… — Natalie Valdes Copy Share Image
“If we all reacted the same way, we'd be predictable, and there's always more than one way to view a situation. What's… — Motoko Kusanagi Copy Share Image
“He was repelled by the pettiness that reduced life to mere existence and that turned men into half-men. He wanted to lay… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
I would never run away from my country. Even at the point of death, I doubt I would move out, because what… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
“There was not an inch of solid ground anywhere in the world for me to call my own. I didn't belong anywhere.… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Frankenstein! If thou wert… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“No one ever comes back from the dead., no one ever enters the world without weeping; no one is ever asked when… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Live or die, but don't poison everything... Well, death's been here for a long time -- it has a hell of a… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“She turned and walked down the musty, dimly-lighted corridor, along a strip of carpeting that still clung together only out of sheer… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Mysterious death, yes, you suspected something even then, I knew it!” With a wave of his hand, he overrode her hasty attempt… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“What is this?! I couldn't die back when I would've been glad to die anywhere, anytime, but now that dying would take… — Yukako Kabei Copy Share Image
“The cruciform does not like pain. Nor do I but, like the cruciform, I am willing to use it to serve my… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we… — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image