“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death, lest… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“For a garden is a mistress, and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
“Lead us from the unreal to the real,” she read aloud. “Lead us from darkness to light. Lead us from death to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Recollection of death also serves as a useful preparation for the time when one actually has to face death. As the concluding… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The disaster also has a social etiology, which no meteorological study, medical autopsy, or epidemiological report can uncover. The human dimensions of… — Eric Klinenberg Copy Share Image
There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Obviously, children die every day, and it is surely conceivable to every one of us that one of our children will pre-decease… — Caroline Overington Copy Share Image
“For a moment I was dizzied by the impulse to leave her there: shove the techs' hands away, shout at hovering morgue… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Death is somewhat easier to meet when you believe, as we do, that to end is to begin. You will learn to… — Camille DeAngelis Copy Share Image
So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Detroit is an urban hell. But even in this city of the dying auto industry, there is reason to hope, if they… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
“On 11 September 2012 crowds of friendly locals in Kabul, Afghanistan, were chanting the usual ‘Death to America’ slogans. At the same… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I stood at the temple door interrogating the passersby about the mystery and merit of Love. And before me passed an… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“There were times when he sat watching the boy sleep that he would begin to sob uncontrollably but it wasn't about death.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at… — John Green Copy Share Image
Scientists have suggested that some whale deaths could be a result of marine noise, often a result of military activity, offshore drilling… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. Abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. To have sex and death placed as… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Those who have entered into the afflictions of Christ for His Church's sake know something of what they mean, for they have… — Jessie Penn-Lewis Copy Share Image
He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give… — Randy Glasbergen Copy Share Image
“Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. It did the same thing that playing the piano had done… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
You'll remember Newton was furious at Leibniz, because he developed calculus at the same time. And he went to his death believing… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poem from the last years of her life that begins "I lose my screams" dear Antigone,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“And as he recalls the old soldier's wisdom regarding bullets and fate, how pointless evasion is when each shot has a man's… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“No one in the family has ever really gotten over Bob’s death. We talk of him daily, recounting stories and imagining what… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“It’s awful, telling it like this, isn’t it? As though we didn’t know the ending. As though it could have another ending.… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“I am waltzing with death, flirting with him, but he stands there smiling and saying nothing because he does not need to… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“I was encouraged to ask in all seriousness what this life is for, what matters most for myself and others, what non-negotiable… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or… — Hafez Copy Share Image
I think the big thing would be maybe the death of my brother. That was the hardest thing for me to take.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
