“It was a gift. What did I do with it? Life didn't accumulate as I'd once imagined. I graduated from boarding school,… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“Rule One: Make friends with death Tailgating in the Antarctic is no joke. We are trying to do nothing less ambitious than… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . . No, that's stupid. I feared hundreds of… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
May you never steal, lie, or cheat, but if you must steal, then steal away my sorrows, and if you must lie,… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
“ Don't do that again, he growled in my mind. Smiling, I thought. You have to admit it was cool. Cool? You… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you. Have you given much thought to our mortal condition? Probably not.… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Maybe I felt like I'd come so close to forever-death that I'd better step back and take a look at my life.… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“death of God the Son on the cross. Each and every sin, no matter how heinous or shameful, can be forgiven. Therefore,… — Mitch Pacwa Copy Share Image
“People always have objects of relief and objects of fear. When they step into a place of relief…and are asked why they… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
“Death is very close, he thought. When you think in this manner. I can feel it, he decided. How near I am.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I was conscious all the while in my heart how my fate raced on at breakneck speed, racing and chasing like a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
I have come to a still, but not a deep center, A point outside the glittering current; My eyes stare at the… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against… — Robert M. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn -or answer the call of Death's dark horn.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The death Saturday of actor Charlton Heston has elicited tributes from many quarters including Nancy Reagan who called him 'an American hero,'… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
“O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You've been sentenced to death in an obscure foreign country which has a strange law. Before the sentence is carried out, two… — Seven Treasures Publications Copy Share Image
“What is death? A "tragic mask." Turn it and examine it. See, it does not bite. The poor body must be separated… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“The simple view is that medicine exists to fight death and disease, and that is, of course, its most basic task. Death… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life. A part we've not yet explored and thus do… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Many environmental threats in the twenty-first century will coincide with the dying out of the post-World War II baby boomers. Future historians… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You’re a survivor. Voron put you on the edge of that cliff again and again until he conditioned you to claw onto… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when… — M.H. Hyndman Copy Share Image
“Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He won’t say no, but who cares if he does? Do it. Hell, guys go through this every time they make a… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
“The intense roller coaster of emotions will gradually lesson over time. But there is no timeframe for the grieving process, and it… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“The Savior… endured the agony [of Gethsemane], of inquisition, cruel beatings, and death by crucifixion on the cross at Calvary. Recently, there… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
“He was found beaten to death on the outskirts of town. He was wearing his uniform. He had survived the war only… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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