My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Think about the holes children make when they dig in the sand on the seashore. When the waves come in, the holes… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
There's something about death. It's like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That's why society is so into things like… — Sheryl Lee Copy Share Image
To reveal death all at once would be to see it absolute, and not as the veiled end of the temporal process;… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“The Anadens have a somewhat different perspective on death.” “On account of not having to deal with it, sure. Personally, I think… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
What is the most appropriate thing to say to a friend who was about to die. He answered:”tell your friend that in… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when I’m alone.” He looked at Philip. “You think that’s a condemnation? You’re wrong. I’m not afraid of my fear. It’s… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I can still see her face -- The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn't know it… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
“Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Reginald “If” Ifa IV died today. His last words were, “Death, the great What if.” I dreamt this, but that doesn’t make… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees… — James Balog Copy Share Image
It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Tonights the Night, that I miss you so. you being here as made us all cold. we miss your love, and we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God… — Derwin L. Gray Copy Share Image
“Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one… — Belinda Bauer Copy Share Image
“In this momentous night, however, he knew far more sadness than grief, and while deep sadness bruises the heart, it doesn’t leave… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts,… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“It looked good on paper- a little blood, a little death, a small resurrection- but it usually ended in a lot of… — Bethany Lovell Copy Share Image
If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he… — James Jones Copy Share Image
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice,… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
“what I wish to tell you now you must swear to keep secret until after my death.” “I swear,” Sancho responded. “I… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients’ “ease” but at the same time… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
“My mother died of colon cancer one week after my eleventh birthday, and that fact has shaped my life. All that I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“The evidence of priming studies suggests that reminding people of their mortality increases the appeal of authoritarian ideas, which may become reassuring… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passion. Their effusion of words,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The vision that had emerged from the invisible was returning to the invisible. It was no more an appearance that was fading… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
![“Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.” quote by Eric Berne](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/548/eric-berne-23256_arrivals_human-life-is-a-process-of-filling-in-ti_2271008.jpg)
