We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Hearing, they say, is one of the last senses to go. My mother smiled. I tearfully asked her, "Mommy, can you see… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude.… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
“So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate, Giving to death, and dying to redeem, So dearly to redeem what hellish hate So… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a good standup, or a successful standup, or a standup who can work for money, you have… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
“Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“When Ungaretti lost his nine-year-old boy He understood that death is death In an extremely brutal way It was the most terrible… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'd always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there's a… — Mitski Copy Share Image
Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I've done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around… — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
“If you face grief and sorrow, please heed Jay’s example: Take time to grieve in whatever way is natural for you, but… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“The story of the young woman whose death I witnessed in a concentration camp. It is a simple story. There is little… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“If a deep-wreck diver stays in the sport long enough, he will likely either come close to dying, watch another diver die,… — Robert Kurson Copy Share Image
As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; 4:24,25). The point of testing is no longer… — C. I. Scofield Copy Share Image
“You may have noticed sudden death of parakeet or perhaps your parakeet is having breathing problem. This is because of birds having… — Mayur Kale Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no… — Carmen Laforet Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
“To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“the ladies who were going in, frightened by the first signs of droop and pucker, then going out again, buffed and tightened… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I would have, Damien! I would have! I would have rather died a thousand painful, torturous deaths than watch you die one!… — Lauren Hammond Copy Share Image
“In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which the death of his friend… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
When you make a death threat to some one, you don't write it down on paper and send it to them by… — Giuliano Copy Share Image
“[The Utopians] marvel that any mortal can take pleasure in the weak sparkle of a little gem or bright pebble, when he… — Sir Thomas More Copy Share Image
Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“Do you realize, that there’ll never be another January 17, 1944? Never again? . . . I’m the only one in this… — Julien Quentin Copy Share Image
“His every movement was laced with a lethal combination of grace and strength, a lord among mere mortals. He was confident, arrogant,… — Paula Quinn Copy Share Image
“I wish there was some personal marker of time, so we didn't have to rely upon days and weeks and months and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image