Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“A gangster must always be prepared to kill a friend. It is one of the many open secrets of the business, since… — Lorenzo Carcaterra Copy Share Image
“Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked about death… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I go around the country, and I speak to colleges, conferences and thousands of people at a time, and I'm like, 'Great.… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
“Did I not give you this mini birth and death of sun everyday on the large screen of sky? And did I… — Jarem Sawatsky Copy Share Image
“Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“LIFE FOLLOWS DEATH AND DEATH FOLLOWS LIFE BUT NEVER IN THE SAME PLACE OR TIME SO THE ONLY WAY TO YOU CAN… — Grace Lynn Lewis Copy Share Image
“Mr. Lisbon knew his parental and neighborly duty entailed putting the retainer in a Ziploc bag, calling the Kriegers, and telling them… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt any desire… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Now, she realized that the hardest test for a child of Athena wasn't leading a quest or facing death in combat. It… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“...of course those fridges don't get cold: they're more like coffins that way. But coffins are also just fancy boxes made to… — Mariana Enríquez Copy Share Image
“Why so profane, ask the bookclubbers? Because we are talking here about death, and fuck you if you don't like it: You're… — Elisa Albert Copy Share Image
For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death:… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Each civilization may choose one of two roads to travel, that is, either fret itself to death, or pet itself to death.… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The 1.8 million child deaths each year related to clean water and sanitation dwarf the casualities associated with violent conflict. No act… — rose george Copy Share Image
To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
People don't even recognize who the Founding Fathers of the United States were. They were exceptional human beings - when you signed… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
“Our favorite games were killing. Our favorite books were death. It had been beaten into us: God is love. Not the parched… — Joseph Bathanti Copy Share Image
TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
I think its a very British thing, murder mystery, and I think 'Death in Paradise' is an extension of that, just adding… — Danny John-Jules Copy Share Image
The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She sat down at a table, with books piled high around her and began looking through them rapidly, looking for some information… — Marian Cockrell Copy Share Image
“It is a strange thing how quickly our bodies die. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Life is forever. Death is only a temporary abridgment. It is just a state of transition where you will move from one… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“you only want to give me a handjob, I’ll settle for waiting for you till a little later. But I’ve come close… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“There were worse things than death. There would be a leap and a moment suspended, then a long hopeless curve to the… — Pamela Freeman Copy Share Image
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“Now when he closes his eyes he can really look at himself. He no longer sees a mask. He sees without seeing,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The destructive impulse with respect to nature all too often has psychological causes that go beyond the greed for material resource or… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on.… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
The only conclusion I could arrive at with the death of the workers' movement as a revolutionary force - you know the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
