“Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I am dying gather round a bum, a gamin, a virgin, someone bestial, a six-toed aristocrat by blood. A Toryette on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The leaves that remain are only a very small part of the tea. The tea that goes into me is a much… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“After a day of heat and hunger, one is weak and listless. But a certain stuport, an internal numbness, has its benefits:… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
“Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas; If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“My son ... my son,' said Francis Crawford before the blurred, failing candles, their light searching over his disordered, bent head and… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
“The very old can tell you about peace. They have fought through the black, sinking, visceral knowledge of death–their own death–that heralds… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow -… — Alphonse Daudet Copy Share Image
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god,… — Claude Vorilhon Copy Share Image
We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Fear of death is understandable, being that we are all going to die, but fear of life and suffering is more of… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“What it all amounted to, oddly enough, was that in his finally so simplified world this garden of death gave him the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature!… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
“There are some who say the world is evil, and that they wish to depart from this life. For my part, I… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“In a surreal gift from the universe, time both stands still and flies past you in that singular moment when you find… — Rachel Thompson Copy Share Image
We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end.… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
“Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“How sweet is mortal Sovranty!"—think some: Others—"How blest the Paradise to come!" Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest;… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
We pray Thee, O Christ, to keep us under the spell of immortality. My we never again think and act as if… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Don't you love to look at coffins? I've always enjoyed looking at one now and then. I think of a coffin as… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“To each of the mourners outside in the lane, I would be no more than a pale face glimpsed for a moment… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
This is my other best friend. She is my twin also :) I freaking love her to death!!! we are always there… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
“I looked Mikey right in the eye, and I said, “We gotta let ’em go.” It was the stupidest, most southern-fried, lamebrained… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria,… — Archie Kalokerinos Copy Share Image
But then you become closed. Then you start dying as far as your intelligence is concerned because intelligence needs the open sky,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Covers will be blown. People may die. But keep in mind that they’re dying every day. And it’s not just Peeta; we’re… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“By giving the name of progress to its own tendency to a fatal precision, the world is seeking to add to the… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
