When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are… — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“On the few occasions when we did visit my grandfather at the Evergreen Moral Home for the Aged Sick and Handicapped, I… — Hwee Hwee Tan Copy Share Image
“For suppose, and mind it narrowly, that life is simply a shadow bodies cast inside themselves when struck by all those queerly… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“I just tried to put myself in her place and figure out what would be the scariest thing. If I thought I… — Patricia Gaffney Copy Share Image
“Hey, I know planet earth is dying. So what do you want me to say? Grumble? Give me a break! These all… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I stole your childhood and now I’ve led you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew.… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out…In great grief,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“I look. There it is. I feel it. The insistent pull to the heart that the hawk brings, that very old longing… — Helen MacDonald Copy Share Image
“So how exactly was I supposed to wrap my head around the whole thing? I wasn’t entirely sure I could trust this… — Nessie Strange Copy Share Image
Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Actually, it’s about ethics in games journalism” became the immediate and fervent reply to anyone discussing Gamergate’s harassment of Quinn. As she… — Bailey Poland Copy Share Image
“Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Life changes so quickly. Not long ago I was mourning the death of my parents and wondering if I could make it… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
“Make yourself interesting to history. Master some aspect of life, and then find a different area and do something crazy. Become a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10%… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Walking upright between the past and future, a tightrope walk across our times, became, for me, a way of living: trying to… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“A funeral procession, the women scream until they fall down in a faint, the men hold them up, the boys cry silently… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“Perhaps in death one can find redemption. Kameron wonders who he refers to more in his thoughts – the others or himself.… — Annalise Grey Copy Share Image
“He then made the connection between Jim’s death and the compulsion he felt to commit the robberies. Once he became aware of… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I either want to be completely recovered or completely emaciated. It's the in between that I can't stand, the limbo of failure… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
“I didn't hear the exact moment Sarren ended Zeke's life. I was just aware of his breathing, tagged at first, then seizing… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
The work of redemption was accomplished by Christ in His death on the cross and has in view the payment of the… — John F Walvoord Copy Share Image
“If you're thinking of calling on that Mrs. Pentstemmon, you can save yourself the trouble. The old biddy's dead." "Dead?" said Sophie.… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“In Genesis, and indeed for much of the Old Testament, the controlling image for death is exile. Adam and Eve were told… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Gently, I reach forward and close her eyes with my fingertips, hoping it will make her seem merely asleep. But the stillness… — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I believe the approach we take to talking to our kids about drugs can, in some cases, mean the difference between life… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Mortals are odd creatures in that sense—flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding… — Hayden Thorne Copy Share Image
“Silent, unseen, small cousin of death, Born this instant, closer than breath, Killer of thought, assassin of dreams, Memory's surgeon, the end… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
