“Extraordinary,' said the Burgomaster, 'extraordinary. And now do you think of staying here in Riva with us?' 'I think not', said the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To insinuate that I would break an oath that I made to the ALMIGHTY for my own personal gain is an insult.… — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Suicide... some slash ttheir wrists, ingest a bottle of pills, jump off a high rise building hang themselevs or blow their brains… — Patience Copy Share Image
Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her… — Alex Gaskarth Copy Share Image
Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I've been fascinated with the subject of loss for a long time. In particular, I'm interested in how people, consciously or unconsciously,… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
“There is no shame here. The places where we still fear are simply the places we have yet to fully receive God’s… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Runner’s Prayer I pray that I may run, Until my dying day. And when it comes to my last race, I… — Randy L. Thurman Copy Share Image
“We die a thousand times before the real thing comes along.' 'What does that mean, Daddy?' 'It means little bits of us… — Michaelene McElroy Copy Share Image
“Life, with all its surprises, is full of moments that, although predictable, keep surprising us. Every sensation, although already written, makes us… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts,… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“All of human civilization... is basically a result of immortality projects: the cities and governments and structures and authorities in places today… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“It was then I truly realised the whale is no more a fish than I am. So much blood. This was not… — Carol Birch Copy Share Image
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“When he was dead I realized that I had hardly ever spoken to him. When he had been dead a long time… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose;… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the… — Frank Lentricchia Copy Share Image
People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Welcome to the year of 2012; Where there is the cinnamon challenge so you can choke to death, the end of the… — Chad Copy Share Image
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked… — Peter Biskind Copy Share Image
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Trout's favorite formula was to describe a perfectly hideous society, not unlike his own, and then, toward the end, to suggest ways… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Birth and death," Chet said. "The poles of human existence. We're like meridians, all beginning and ending in the same place. We… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The griefs that have been hardest for me were the ones I didn’t recognize as griefs, because they came in what were… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Concerning the death of Gertrude Stein: she came out of a deep coma to ask her companion Alice Toklas, 'Alice, Alice, what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
