“The Hermit I’d gladly climb the highest steeple To escape those middle minded people Jet Set Wedding I wake up screaming clutching… — Elissa Eaton Copy Share Image
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“The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and… — Ben Stephenson Copy Share Image
Fear of death and idolatry of youth have prompted vain neurotics to spend ever-greater fortunes on cosmetic products and surgeries to stave… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“It's okay to talk about it. Death is so normal, I don't know why everyone gets so hung up about it. We… — Rachel Ward Copy Share Image
This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The man who has lived his life totally, intensely, passionately, without any fear - without any fear that has been created in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“At the front, people die for their mistakes. Why should politicians be more gently treated? They made the war. They deserve a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Buddhism also throws new, and I believe fuller, light on an oft-quoted passage from John’s Gospel: “Unless a grain of wheat falls… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer;… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“In the dying embers and blackened twigs of a ravaged forest, who could distinguish where the first spark was lit? Only the… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“If all material were transparent—the ground that supports us, the envelope that sheathes our body—everything would be seen not as a fluttering… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“That's when it hit me; my sunglasses were buried in the grave where my Talal lay. Yes, my sunglasses were buried with… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
“It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it. ― Ernest Hemingway,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The deaths of such skilled fliers like my very good friend Sean Leary make me see that if there's ever a question… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
“...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
“Dear Pen Pal, I know it’s been a few years since I last wrote you. I hope you’re still there. I’m not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“... the pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient,… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Solitude means withdrawal from an artificial and fictional level of being which men, divided by original sin, have fabricated in order to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead… — Neil Abramson Copy Share Image
Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“I want to tell you something today, something that I have known for a long while, and you know it too; but… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And is death not the ultimate orgasm, a return to that otherworldly ether, whose very origins were indeed a Big Bang, the… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
“Excerpt: Paradox – Bound By Blood. The hands on a clock never falter, not for a second. One day ends; and a… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
“He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking perfection in… — Paula Brackston Copy Share Image
“The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“She wished to sit down quietly and wait for her death, but not until she had cut the throats of her man… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“Death, like birth, is a secret of nature.” Only with birth you get a blanket and a bottle. You get a blanket… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
“In the last months of the war, when I raped in uniform – we were, by then, so full of death (and… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My worst year. The only thing that I know for a fact now is that if it's really a bad day, then… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
“Liquor and loss were a desperate combination but particularly for my family, where the precipice between darkness and lightness was mired in… — Angela Amman Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
