“Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
“So it went. Bob was increasingly cynical, leery, uneasy; Jesse was increasingly cavalier, merry, moody, fey, unpredictable. If his gross anatomy suggested… — Ron Hansen Copy Share Image
Everyday is hard for me the thoughts the feelings the desire and longing to it the end and when will it end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grief mixed with shock is such a difficult state to be in; it's hard even to describe it. On the one hand,… — Robert Wagner Copy Share Image
“With this much loss, you begin to think it’s in the blood, as if there’s a dark magnet pulling the body in… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
“Hemalurgy, it is called, because of the connection to blood. It is not a coincidence, I believe, that death is always involved… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“This is the city of uncertainty, where routes and faces look alike and are not. Death will be like that. We will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Study history, Alleluia. In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I mean, these days, character… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“LIVE OR DIE': the graffiti message on the pier at Santa Monica is mysterious, because we really have no choice between life… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He's this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if other people think about death - frequently, or just in general. I wonder if they think about it… — Courtney Carola Copy Share Image
“If Lana Walters had given any thought to dying, she’d have assumed it would hurt more. Instead, when the bus hit her,… — Mae Archer Copy Share Image
“Death is my art form--when I fight, I'm a ballerina. Graceful. Chi lacks my grace, but makes up for it in energy… — Eliza Crewe Copy Share Image
“Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Don't say nothin' wotever about it, ma'am,' replied Sam. 'I only assisted natur, ma'am; as the doctor said to the boy's mother,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was as if the boy had already divined what his senses and intellect had not encompassed yet: that doomed wilderness whose… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“He thought about that visionary lady. To die, he thought, never knowing the fierce joy and attendant comfort of a loved one's… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Death may be due to a wide variety of diseases and disorders, but in every case the underlying physiological cause is a… — Dr. Milton Helpern Copy Share Image
Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“You'd think that people would have figured out by now that sticking a fork into the toaster is perhaps not the best… — Gary Whitta Copy Share Image
“He did not deserve to die, and his death absolutely proves that life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In the wake of prevalent child rape and child abuse cases reported and unreported; Infliction of “Death Penalty” for child rape irrespective… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“I'd experienced loss. My parents were gone. Ren was... gone. But I was still here. I still had things to accomplish. I… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
