The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
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In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life's legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Lord Jesus, we praise you for your victory over death and your grace. In our moments of doubt and worry, remind us… — Northwestern Publishing House Copy Share Image
He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
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“women found physical hardship more endurable than anxiety, their ‘nerves’, and the consciousness that their never-ending reproductive state could lead to death.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
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Go ahead and do what you really love to do! Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
All life includes loss. It's taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don't expect I'll ever… — Ken Grimwood Copy Share Image
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When the Creator banished from his sight Frail man to dark mortality's abode, And granted him a late return to light, Only… — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
“Then, my sweet, you are still an innocent, and I am amazed. Lies are far more potent than the truth, and far… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“ When I Am Dead, My Dearest When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
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Culturally, now, we're really tight around death, and as a result I think people miss out on a lot of the beautiful… — Chrysta Bell Copy Share Image
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We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda," he told the Times. "I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
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“brain activity in a heartbeat. All of that says Richard. But the DNA in consort with the paper trail of a genealogy… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
“I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.’ The giving up of His will to God’s will in… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“Death rode out, but found himself guiding the white horse down the track to the orchard. He stopped in front of one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
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![“[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of…” quote by William James](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/db5/william-james-228_breaths_there-are-in-us-possibilities-that-take_2888048.png)
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