“I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when a man must rise above shock, the loss of lung, and grape-tossing women to come up with… — Jes Drew Copy Share Image
There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“One study concluded that there were 1.7 errors per patient per day in America's ICUs. Of these errors, 29 percent could have… — Peter Pronovost Copy Share Image
“My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings us all together.… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Prometheus on the rock. Do you know that story? Every day he's punished for giving mortals fire by being strapped to a… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
“I made sure to pay attention to everything I was doing. To be fully in the moment. Because that's all life is,… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out,… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“A man was dead, and that is no small matter. Regardless of circumstances, no matter the justification, anyone who can cause the… — William T. Prince Copy Share Image
“You could've just let me bleed to death and saved yourself a lot of hassle." Cal scowled at him. "I did it… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, "I missed the ordinary… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“How does anyone think long-term around here?' 'Not everyone is in a quadrant where death is less of a chance and more… — Rebecca Yarros Copy Share Image
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Life is pitiful, death so familiar, suffering and pain so common, yet I would not be anywhere else. Do not wish me… — Gladys Aylward Copy Share Image
“The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“I think we should all live as if we are dying too – because we are, make no mistake. We should live… — Eva Woods Copy Share Image
“Every time you talk about your dad, you have a tone. Like...I don't know, I guess I expected his house to look… — Katie Reus Copy Share Image
“Everything in your life is a matter of choice. There are only two things we have no choice about. We cannot avoid… — Dr. Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
“The Lord has said to keep an eye on the needle. If inner happiness decreases and external happiness increases, then realize that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“From where we stand, immortality and death are synonymous: a two-headed monster of semantics. Having no value for us except as “endness,”… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“Alas! I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Dr. [Ian] Stevenson [from the University of Virginia School of Medicine]'s research had revealed that the majority of cases of children who… — Cathy Byrd Copy Share Image
“Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I do not understand how you know you only have one life if you have never died, because if you have never… — Cassandra Kemper Copy Share Image
“But mortification - literally, "making death" - is what life is all about, a slow discovery of the mortality of all that… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“When it comes to dying and the risks of a bad death, does our responsibility as doctors override cultural values? Is it… — Jessica Nutik Zitter Copy Share Image
![“He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits…” quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/453/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_animal_he-said-that-people-who-loved-animals-to_1578871.jpg)
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