All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!' IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
“Love is the thing that corrodes the mind and pushes it to do the unimaginable. Love is the thorn that barbs into… — Dahlia L. Summers Copy Share Image
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If Death Grips isn't the fourth horseman of a hip-hop apocalypse, its music at least tests the genre's threshold of extremity: The… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Then I stop existing. She is talking, talking, takes off who knows where, she says it all starts over, speech, paths, butterflies… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I don't want to be vain or fearful, and I don't think I'll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“The voice came from the night all around him, in his head and out of it. "What do you want?' it repeated.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We gonna be a family again in Heaven. It takes some strong patience, but the Lord will come through. And as long… — Andrew Galasetti Copy Share Image
“Hustling sex for cash ain’t dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin’ yourself in a different mindset. Always… — Jon Michaelsen Copy Share Image
I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He… — Mike D Copy Share Image
But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens… — Jack London Copy Share Image
All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net.… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
This isn’t the first time I’ve faced death, and I don’t intend for it to be the last,” I said, repeating the… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“A righteous politician will make all his citizens leaders. He will know all the lives of his countrymen. He will know each… — David Ssembajjo Copy Share Image
“But the life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the… — Hegel Copy Share Image
“It's time, Old Captain, lift anchor, sink! The land rots; we shall sail into the night; if now the sky and sea… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Reconstructions based on bone remains can only reveal the most general characteristics of the creature, since the really distinctive morphological features of… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
“THREE BASIC TRUTHS Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless. Three… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“There are people whose death leaves you with an ache of grief. A slight sting. And then there are people whose death… — Patricia Amaro Copy Share Image
“How long will the Gilgamesh Project – the quest for immortality – take to complete? A hundred years? Five hundred years? A… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
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It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
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“Survival on the streets required that you be respected and a large part of that street credibility was based upon the perception… — Nick Apuzzo Copy Share Image
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
![“I don't want to be vain or fearful, and I don't think I'll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if I want to do something, I will. From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.” quote by Drew Barrymore](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/766/drew-barrymore-921_age_i-don-t-want-to-be-vain-or-fearful-and-i_2207880.jpg)
![“All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that have, at their core, the notion that equality is something the privileged group "gives" to those not so privileged - a reaching down, as it were.” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/859/george-saunders-317_belief_all-of-this-strife-on-the-political-fron_610812.jpg)
![“For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ea0/virginia-woolf-49_age_for-while-directly-we-say-that-it-the-le_1918962.jpg)
