“We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“I am finding myself: it's deadly because only death concludes me. But I bear it until the end. I'll tell you a… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education. To build a church when… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“Survival on the streets required that you be respected and a large part of that street credibility was based upon the perception… — Nick Apuzzo Copy Share Image
“Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known--not long ago the… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“And suddenly, in the place of the woman-shape made of shadow, there was something else. Something huge, something ugly. Linay flung up… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
“It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire,… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
I enjoy life so much I don't want it to end, and dying does worry me. If you've got faith, you believe… — David Jason Copy Share Image
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“I have tried to teach you the wonders of the spiritual world... ...I have tried to show how we mortals can attain… — Roger Kettle Copy Share Image
No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away,… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
“And I still say it was just a coincidence;' he muttered pugnaciously. 'You say it too! Look at me and say it!… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“About this time, whether he felt there wasn't sufficient drama in his life or that he was determined not to be outdone… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“There’s no way around it, is there?” I ask. “We’re mortal enemies and I should be trying to kill you and everyone… — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“When Sean died she understood for the first time how completely human beings were dependent upon a suspension of disbelief in order… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
“Forget dying. I suddenly wanted to inflict pain. My anger was a living, breathing thing controlling my body, making me shake. It… — Charlotte McConaghy Copy Share Image
“But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Your life is death already, though you live And though you see, except that half your time You waste in sleep, and… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If… — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has… — Horatio Bottomley Copy Share Image
“When you forget what you ultimately stand for, you rejoice in blinding ignorance. Missing the bigger picture for the near pleasure is… — Rakesh Ranjan Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“For humans are merely one form among many, which the world produces over and over again, not only in everything that lives… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Mild is the slow necessity of death; The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp, Without a groan, almost without a fear, Resigned… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“She watched as the dancing lights of madness swirled and flickered in his eyes like the fires of hell, and she knew… — Cedric Nye Copy Share Image
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Whether or not Project Gilgamesh succeeds, from a historical perspective it is fascinating to see that most late-modern religions and ideologies have… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Being older, I began to understand the lyrics. At the beginning, it sounds like a guy is trying to get his girlfriend… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Okay. Well. Here’s a real question. How long do you think it takes to get over someone dying? Someone you really loved,… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image