“To some degree, the entirety of human culture and civilization has been built upon survival and death avoidance. From the creation of… — Tim Seeley Copy Share Image
Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Glamour is fueled by the dreams and imagination of mortals. Writers, artists, little boys pretending to be knights - the fey are… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“Thus, there is an ambivalence here about the death-aspect of the Goddess. Clearly, she represents regeneration as well as death. Indeed, the… — Miriam Robbins Dexter Copy Share Image
“The sun would still rise, the seasons would still come, life would continue. I was thankful to have been a part of… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“And she's alive, so alive that even the sun wants a piece of her, and that's what hurts most of all. That… — Sharon Dogar Copy Share Image
I think it's hard for people to suspend the era they live in and understand the decisions that had to be made… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“A brush with death changes a person. For good people, it changes them for the better, makes them more thankful—and dedicated to… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Think about the holes children make when they dig in the sand on the seashore. When the waves come in, the holes… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“There'd always been an understanding between Havemercy and me; that we'd kill any man who came between us. I was holding up… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
“Once you kill all of us, and you're alone, you'll die! The hate will die. That hate is what moves you, nothing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Absolute silence greeted the mystery of death, and for a time impossible to measure they waited, motionless, while Lynn's spirit rose from… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To reveal death all at once would be to see it absolute, and not as the veiled end of the temporal process;… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
There's something about death. It's like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That's why society is so into things like… — Sheryl Lee Copy Share Image
“The Anadens have a somewhat different perspective on death.” “On account of not having to deal with it, sure. Personally, I think… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
What is the most appropriate thing to say to a friend who was about to die. He answered:”tell your friend that in… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
I can still see her face -- The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn't know it… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when I’m alone.” He looked at Philip. “You think that’s a condemnation? You’re wrong. I’m not afraid of my fear. It’s… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Tonights the Night, that I miss you so. you being here as made us all cold. we miss your love, and we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees… — James Balog Copy Share Image
It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Reginald “If” Ifa IV died today. His last words were, “Death, the great What if.” I dreamt this, but that doesn’t make… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one… — Belinda Bauer Copy Share Image
Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God… — Derwin L. Gray Copy Share Image
“In this momentous night, however, he knew far more sadness than grief, and while deep sadness bruises the heart, it doesn’t leave… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to,… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
“Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. "A brief life seems… — Chelsea Fine Copy Share Image
