“A funeral procession, the women scream until they fall down in a faint, the men hold them up, the boys cry silently… — Claire North Copy Share Image
In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10%… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Walking upright between the past and future, a tightrope walk across our times, became, for me, a way of living: trying to… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
The work of redemption was accomplished by Christ in His death on the cross and has in view the payment of the… — John F Walvoord Copy Share Image
“I didn't hear the exact moment Sarren ended Zeke's life. I was just aware of his breathing, tagged at first, then seizing… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
I either want to be completely recovered or completely emaciated. It's the in between that I can't stand, the limbo of failure… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“If you're thinking of calling on that Mrs. Pentstemmon, you can save yourself the trouble. The old biddy's dead." "Dead?" said Sophie.… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“In Genesis, and indeed for much of the Old Testament, the controlling image for death is exile. Adam and Eve were told… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
We stare at broken clocks, the hands don't turn anymore. The days turn into nights, empty hearts and empty places. The day… — Bring Me The Horizon Copy Share Image
“We make the exchange in a place where no man can bring an army, or draw a sword, on pain of death.’… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
“Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Since you're going to die anyway, why not go do whatever it is you are in the mood to do. To postpone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Depression is a painfully slow, crashing death. Mania is the other extreme, a wild roller coaster run off its tracks, an eight… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Would not falling into your eyes - betrayed by life and death embrace /At least the wall of hatred between the two… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The gates of memory would roll open—old joys would stretch out their arms to them, old hopes and dreams would call to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Note that life after death, which still seems to you the essential thing, was itself a late revelation. God trained the Hebrews… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Did he still want it? Did he still want to live? Yes, yes, oh, God, yes, please. Because, O.K., the thing was—he… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are… — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
“Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Hey, I know planet earth is dying. So what do you want me to say? Grumble? Give me a break! These all… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I stole your childhood and now I’ve led you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew.… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
“I just tried to put myself in her place and figure out what would be the scariest thing. If I thought I… — Patricia Gaffney Copy Share Image
“On the few occasions when we did visit my grandfather at the Evergreen Moral Home for the Aged Sick and Handicapped, I… — Hwee Hwee Tan Copy Share Image
“For suppose, and mind it narrowly, that life is simply a shadow bodies cast inside themselves when struck by all those queerly… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“So how exactly was I supposed to wrap my head around the whole thing? I wasn’t entirely sure I could trust this… — Nessie Strange Copy Share Image
Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out…In great grief,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“I look. There it is. I feel it. The insistent pull to the heart that the hawk brings, that very old longing… — Helen MacDonald Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5… — Mark Lawson Copy Share Image
