We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but… — Otto Frank Copy Share Image
[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones… — Homer Copy Share Image
“The voice I heard on the edge of death is the same which inspired my ancestors to write their verse: a further… — Tobias Wade Copy Share Image
“& only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If we put everyone on life in prison (no parole), they would be full and overcrowded. They already are. Some prisoners may… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I came from a hard, working-class world which, since my mother's death, had been dominated by men. I hadn't been encouraged to… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his… — Horace Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The one thing I know for a fact - some days are bad, some days are okay, and I'll go with it.… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
“[...] And suddenly Vincent clearly realised what his subconsciousness had known for a long time. All the talks about God are just… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“Mankind is immortal in the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of nature but by virtue of man's subjection to… — Rose A. Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of… — Maurice Herzog Copy Share Image
“When brought to meaning, all importance becomes small, as in death, all life seems nothing. Knowing is destroyed by thinking, not destroyed… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me,… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of people on this planet and, as a Christian, I like to believe that they all have to… — Nina Copy Share Image
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“It scares us more than anything except death. Being alone. Our fear of solitude is so ingrained that given the choice of… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it,… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
“While they went on writing and making speeches, we saw field hospitals and men dying: while they preached the service of the… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
You do not have to remain stuck in your grief forever when you realize that your loved ones who have passed continue… — Suzanne Giesemann Copy Share Image
I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to… — Robert Tappan Morris Copy Share Image
There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heaven needed an angel and god sent for you, You are gone from me forever, Now what am I to do, I… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem , and how small they are ; how we… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
Inside if you, you have the ability to accept that even the most perfect beginnings has the most imperfect endings. The courage… — Julandie Copy Share Image
“There are guys bleeding to death who don't know it, they're smiling, they're talking, they don't feel pain because they're in shock,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“You can’t strangle stress to death. You can try, but all that effort only increases its ferocity until it shatters your ability… — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share Image
There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image