“you might think it wasn't real nice to kick a dying man, and maybe it wasn't, but I'd been wanting to kick… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“The continent has embraced a spiritual death long before the demographic one. In those seventeen European countries that have fallen into the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“We’re organisms; we’re conceived, we’re born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
“The set of circumstances that justifies the use of deadly force is a situation of immediate danger of death or great bodily… — Massad Ayoob Copy Share Image
It never occurred to them that God may have provided the world with a vast array of very brainy medical types for… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“We have gone far in our public places to push death aside, to consign it to a dusty corner, but in the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Modern science & doctors can do a great deal to prolong life. The life span is lengthening, but that is merely postponing… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Her death had obliterated that. It had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“When you are spoken of, it begins with recounting your death, before going back to explain it. Isn’t it peculiar how this… — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've thought about… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
“Great, the English had sent her to her death accompanied by two village idiots. Not that it mattered anymore how her life… — E.B. Brown Copy Share Image
“One false step, and you’ll fall all the way to Tartarus—and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The lurid descriptions of what lay between death and salvation conjure up a Hieronymus Bosch vision of hell, reflecting the universal horror… — Toby A.H. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“The thing was, all mortals were going to lose the ones they loved. It was the way life worked. But for most… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“For is there any human sorrow so great that the blessing of mere daylight on the earth does not far exceed? We… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Rule 1 for Mortals: Love the Lord your God (with every bit of you). Rule 2 for Mortals: Love your neighbor as… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I know any move I would make toward Darius, any act of recognition, would only result in punishment for him. So we… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“In theory, the idea of eternity in heaven singing God’s praises sounds really good, but when I realize I have to go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is hard because it cannot last, because it must not last. Its very definition is that which lies tenuously between nonexistence… — Shawn Davis Copy Share Image
“As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“One heartbeat,” he replied, “one heartbeat. That’s it. That’s all. You’re only one heartbeat away from eternity. Everything you have—your life, your… — Jonathan Cahn Copy Share Image
“I do not think that hour there told me anything I could not have imagined myself, but being there, in that silence,… — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I don't have any set things that I'm looking for, like, 'I've done this now I want to do this,' kind of… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
“It was only after her death that I realized who she was: the apparently magical force at the center of our family… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image