“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just… — Hala Alyan Copy Share Image
“Everything in the garden is dying, that’s what time of year it is. The leaves blaze and desiccate in their dying before… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Isaac was a stranger and he had seen more of my wounds than anyone else. Not because I chose him like I… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“Life Lessons FROM LOSS If you experience loss, it doesn't means you lost. it means you've been blessed with an opportunity to… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul; dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word!… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Suffering is part of life,' she said. 'All the parts of life are jumbled up together; you can't separate out just the… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
It is because everything is relative That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and Entertainment much more than… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“The machine turns, turns and must keep on turning—for ever. It is death if it stands still. A thousand millions scrabbled the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was simple reflex, her own instinct for survival. Or perhaps it had been his words, bringing back the horror of… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“An Italian text from 1490 shows how spontaneous and natural was the clear recognition of imminent death, and how fundamentally alien to… — Philippe Ariès Copy Share Image
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
“It is astonishing how much worse one mosquito can be than a swarm. A swarm can be prepared against, but one mosquito… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
One death is too many - and with careful management and a lot of luck, the coronavirus sweeping the globe will be… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
“But I knew damn well that our troops were being burned and blown up in Humvees well before I became secretary and… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
“Great grief can be worn charmingly by a beauty and I have seen a lot of gracious dignity at funerals in my… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
“In the world of wild naturalism, there is nothing greater or higher than mortal survival tactics. Everything we do, we do as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When my mother was alive, I was the daughter first and everything else second… That's what made her death so painful. My… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
“I love you, Esmeralda,” he said. “I love you, too,” she whispered back, and he couldn’t help smiling. At least he would… — JL Bryanyan Copy Share Image
Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
A birth is a death. Everything you treasure, and believe in, and love, and relate to is destroyed for you when you… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The Ladies Buddenbrook from Breite Strasse did not weep, however - it was not their custom. Their faces, a little less caustic… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“In the face of relentless challenges that test the very core of human strength, I’ve emerged, not unscathed, but enduring. Each day… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
“He bent over Farid and wiped some soot from his cold forehead. "Roxanne knows it," he said. "She'll tell it to you.… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I will work hard to try to get rid of the death penalty. If I could do that, with all the other… — Ernie Chambers Copy Share Image
You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“When you were still here, Isobe thought, death seemed so far removed from me. It was as though you stood with both… — Shusaku Endo Copy Share Image
“Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead--too… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Death is the moment of form dissolving. When that dissolving is not resisted, an opening appears into the dimension of the sacred,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image