“There were heavy beams - planks of sun - falling randomly, wonderfully, onto the road. Clouds arched their backs to lok behind… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of… — Edwin M. Stanton Copy Share Image
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“Trout's favorite formula was to describe a perfectly hideous society, not unlike his own, and then, toward the end, to suggest ways… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“The griefs that have been hardest for me were the ones I didn’t recognize as griefs, because they came in what were… — Anna White Copy Share Image
“Birth and death," Chet said. "The poles of human existence. We're like meridians, all beginning and ending in the same place. We… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Welcome to the year of 2012; Where there is the cinnamon challenge so you can choke to death, the end of the… — Chad Copy Share Image
People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked… — Peter Biskind Copy Share Image
The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid… — William Farr Copy Share Image
The four eaglets are my four sons who cease not to persecute me even unto death. The youngest of them, whom I… — Henry II of France Copy Share Image
As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
“For many years, February was a difficult month for me after the death of my parents. My father died in February, just… — Mary Morrell Copy Share Image
You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“And afterward, I stopped at Red Cloud's grave to pay my respects to the old chief. Some Oglalas had left him tobacco… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
“Concerning the death of Gertrude Stein: she came out of a deep coma to ask her companion Alice Toklas, 'Alice, Alice, what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves out of despair. But the painting has… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“Inbreeding significantly increased the risks of miscarriage and child mortality, and the lack of medical knowledge at the time added to the… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“There is no shame here. The places where we still fear are simply the places we have yet to fully receive God’s… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
“The Runner’s Prayer I pray that I may run, Until my dying day. And when it comes to my last race, I… — Randy L. Thurman Copy Share Image
Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts,… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“We die a thousand times before the real thing comes along.' 'What does that mean, Daddy?' 'It means little bits of us… — Michaelene McElroy Copy Share Image
“Life, with all its surprises, is full of moments that, although predictable, keep surprising us. Every sensation, although already written, makes us… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Suicide... some slash ttheir wrists, ingest a bottle of pills, jump off a high rise building hang themselevs or blow their brains… — Patience Copy Share Image
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
I've been fascinated with the subject of loss for a long time. In particular, I'm interested in how people, consciously or unconsciously,… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her… — Alex Gaskarth Copy Share Image
