“Is there life before death? That’s chalked up In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain, Coherent miseries, a bite and a sup, We hug… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives,… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
“I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits; and 'tis found They go on such strange… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“A man craves ultimate truths. Every mortal mind, I think, is that way. But what is ultimate truth? It's the end of… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“From the moment of birth, the hunger of death feeds from an army of life. Day by day it creeps ever closer,… — Thomas L. Scott Copy Share Image
The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
You swore to stay with me,” he said. “When we made our oath, as parabatai. Our souls are knit. We are one… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness of death is therefore a gift of God which assists man in finding his heart, which is the beginning of the… — Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Copy Share Image
“Did I learn anything? No way. But all the things you want to learn from grief turn out to be the total… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I was just thoughts, just air. There was nothingness all around me. Was this what it was like to be dead? When… — Melissa Kantor Copy Share Image
You are the best of the best of the few and the proud dont ask what your country can do for you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’m not afraid of my fear. It’s folly, the Christian argument that you should live always in view of your death. The… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Age and disease and death may destroy our physical being but it is other people who get inside us and damage our… — Sally Vickers Copy Share Image
“The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“THE GAME In a field just like bubble we were. I could not count the number of us. And the field was… — Marcus L. Lukusa Copy Share Image
After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“Now winter downs the dying of the year, And night is all a settlement of snow; From the soft street the rooms… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom… — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
“between 1915 and 1930, US maternal mortality did not decline and deaths of babies from birth injuries actually increased. Hospitals advertised widely,… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“There is nothing worse than fear. Fear is worse than cancer, fear is worse than torture, fear is worse than betrayal and… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“If life on death row is safer than life on the streets, it's hard to believe that the fear of execution is… — Levitt & Dubner Copy Share Image
When Death lurks at the door, the physician is considered as a God. When danger has been overcome, the physician is looked… — Hendrik Goltzius Copy Share Image
I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will… — Veronica Chambers Copy Share Image
“Whether my mortality caught me at twenty-eight or ninety-three, I made the choice to die content, slipped into the nothingness, my atoms… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
“Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again, as… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I was raised in the valley There was shadows and death Got out alive but with scars I can't forget This kid… — Bring Me The Horizon < 3 Copy Share Image
People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Loss makes me feel vulnerable. I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
“I read old novels. The reason is simple: I prefer proper endings. Marriages and deaths, noble sacrifices and miraculous restorations, tragic separations… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
