The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you. Have you given much thought to our mortal condition? Probably not.… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn -or answer the call of Death's dark horn.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against… — Robert M. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
I have come to a still, but not a deep center, A point outside the glittering current; My eyes stare at the… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
“You've been sentenced to death in an obscure foreign country which has a strange law. Before the sentence is carried out, two… — Seven Treasures Publications Copy Share Image
“What is death? A "tragic mask." Turn it and examine it. See, it does not bite. The poor body must be separated… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The death Saturday of actor Charlton Heston has elicited tributes from many quarters including Nancy Reagan who called him 'an American hero,'… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
“You’re a survivor. Voron put you on the edge of that cliff again and again until he conditioned you to claw onto… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life. A part we've not yet explored and thus do… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Many environmental threats in the twenty-first century will coincide with the dying out of the post-World War II baby boomers. Future historians… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The simple view is that medicine exists to fight death and disease, and that is, of course, its most basic task. Death… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“He was found beaten to death on the outskirts of town. He was wearing his uniform. He had survived the war only… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“The Savior… endured the agony [of Gethsemane], of inquisition, cruel beatings, and death by crucifixion on the cross at Calvary. Recently, there… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
“The intense roller coaster of emotions will gradually lesson over time. But there is no timeframe for the grieving process, and it… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“He won’t say no, but who cares if he does? Do it. Hell, guys go through this every time they make a… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
“Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when… — M.H. Hyndman Copy Share Image
“Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If you’re hoping for a good meal, you’ve come to the wrong place. Miss Cameron has already attempted to sacrifice herself on… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“Almondine To her, the scent and the memory of him were one. Where it lay strongest, the distant past came to her… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
“PART TWO FACING DEATH AND DYING The issue of facing death in a peaceful manner is a very difficult one. According to… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue… — John Croory Whaley Copy Share Image
“To life in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible --… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Remember: You are no one. You have no name. You do not speak, you do not look at them, you do not… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“And the others, who have avoided all of these deaths, get up in the morning and go downtown to meet “the man.”… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I can wax boringly about the role of comedy in mitigating pain. For so many comedians, comedy comes out of personal despair.… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“I loved them. True, I was scared to death getting on the damn thing. But once the pilot took off and we… — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
“The best=laid plans, one's most fastidious contingency strategies have revealed themselves in the cold light of day to be laughably inadequate, no… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“We need to talk about the hierarchy of grief. You hear it all the time—no grief is worse than any other. I… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image