“Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Lips, let sour words go by and language end: What is amiss plague and infection mend! Graves only be men's works and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was a huge fan of horror movies. There's nothing more fun than going into a movie with a smile… — Ashley Bell Copy Share Image
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We look to… the edges,' said Mistress Weatherwax. 'There’s a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Death is not seductive. It does not come silk-clad and sweet-smelling as I did for my chosen. It is lonely and cold… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Welcome," Vassily said, and smiled. He showed teeth. "To Immortal Battles. We don't fight to the death -- we fight beyond death,… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped into the next room I am I and you are you Whatever we… — Henry Scott Holland Copy Share Image
For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“I saw her tonight. I didn’t mean to and I wasn’t prepared for it. I came across her sweet smiling face and… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Briars and thistles wither not so soon as lilies and roses. They may be taken out of the world, of whom the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round.… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Musalia [Mudavadi] was created by [Daniel Toroitich arap] Moi and given his seat after his father's death since Musalia's was one of… — Raila Odinga Copy Share Image
They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When I cut I keep on slowly dying... Try to keep my head up but someone or something keeps knocking my smile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Churchgoers all across the nation say the Holy Spirit has entered them. They claim that God has given them a supernatural ability… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“It seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with illness or senility;… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my… — Zhang Zai Copy Share Image
“Early suckling helps expel any fragments of placenta and stems post-natal bleeding; it also prevents engorgement, mastitis and abscesses which could lead… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image