And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
“We hold in our hands a key to peace on earth, yet it has been overlooked. It is the near-death experience. It… — April Michelle Lewis Copy Share Image
“In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“The problem with aging was not that death was near, for death was always near. The problem with aging was that a… — Stant Litore Copy Share Image
The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Keep your vision all-inclusive, never allowing it to lock on any one thing...look everywhere at once, see nothing to the exclusion of… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression,… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Laugh so hard that even sorrow smiles at you. Fight so strong that fate even admits defeat. Love so true that hatred… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Cassius laughed, genuinely amused. "You truly are a fool, Priest.” He shook his head. “A treasure … I've never heard it called… — James Byron Huggins Copy Share Image
“A Given The drum we hear inside us now we may not hear tomorrow. We have such fear of what comes next.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Can you remember another time when your chest felt like this?” My fingers splayed across my aching chest as I carefully pondered… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is… — Ujjwal Nikam Copy Share Image
Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth,… — John Denver Copy Share Image
“And after his death - or even before it, perhaps - he lived on in camp legend as a demented old man… — Nadezhda Mandelstam Copy Share Image
He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“For those who believe in resurrection, death is inconsequential. It's not an ending but rather a new beginning. A second chance, a… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
“He was revived eight times, and hanged nine. Only after the eighth hanging were his last bits of courage and dignity gone.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Death forces a grace period on all of us. The dying offer the living a final chance to be the best that… — Nancy Cobb Copy Share Image
“I know that the Kaiser incarnates all there is of brute force and of murder. And yet I would not, if I… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“With duller steel than the Perséan sword They cut away no formless monster's head, But one, whose gentleness did well accord With… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“the words of President Kennedy, uttered on June 11, 1963, only a few months before his tragic death: “We are confronted primarily… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
''From the ashes of despair, the life of boundless death the soldier weeps tears of joy.'' ''For what was once death become… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“The obituary seemed like a washing of the body. It cleaned Steen up. The existence of the photographs, all the sordid aspects… — Simon Brett Copy Share Image
“Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking." And… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The spirit of Judas is the same with that of Delilah. Judas could not love Jesus and Delilah could not love Samson… — Steven Chuks Nwaokeke Copy Share Image
So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Do we identify with a criminal in that we too secretly long to be judged? Popularly, being ‘judgemental’ is ill thought of… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“Zoe is survived by her husband, Charles, and her daughter, Juliet. Survived. This guy is right. The words we use to surround… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Whatever we say and mean by life is just a journey toward death. If you can understand that your whole life is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
