We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does… — Joseph Fiorenza Copy Share Image
“I acted not, as I most often did, as death’s enemy, but as its ambassador. I had to help those families understand… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“MICHAEL PILLER As soon as I started, I said, “I need to see every script, every abandoned story, and every submitted piece… — Edward Gross Copy Share Image
“I think Poe's quite good, actually. The whole casual horror thing. Like someone standing next to you and screaming their head off… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The prediction that in the twenty-first century humankind is likely to aim for immortality, bliss and divinity may anger, alienate or frighten… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations -… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and… — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I… — Andrew Hudgins Copy Share Image
“I guess I'm thinking of myself here. I am tired. I am the one who asks, is death only the frozen image… — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“The belief in the bodily resurrection has no religious foundation, and the doctrine of immortality refers to the after-existence of the soul… — Norman Solomon Copy Share Image
“Thousands of those men and boys died here, and I have recently learned that their inhuman treatment was the intended policy of… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
The idea of flux, kind of constant change, whether it be our sense of time or geological time or cosmic time. It's… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
“a penny for my thoughts oh no i'll sell em for a dollar their worth so much more after im a goner… — The Band Perry Copy Share Image
Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we… — Gil Garcetti Copy Share Image
“I don't use airplane bathrooms. As a rule. And I really don't like breaking rules. (It's kind of one of my rules.)… — Lauren Morrill Copy Share Image
“They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“All the same I fear what happens when we expand the terrain of medical practice to include actively assisting people with speeding… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Ah, yes, Yggdrasil, the great tree of the world. It is the mark of the mystic. Usually this role is reserved for… — C.J. Adrien Copy Share Image
Take life as it comes and death as it comes. Death is really beautiful; if it were a bad thing, God would… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“mostly I saw her efforts to induct me into adulthood much as a calf might see its mother’s explanations of veal: I… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“But never has the Call been so clear As now, when death’s cool hand Eases my spirit from my fevered body-- And… — Jessica Coupe Copy Share Image
On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I mean, these days, character isn't destiny any… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness… No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. ... The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does.… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
“The person whom you really, really love may not be here anymore. And you might be feeling lonely, but, there are people… — Yuuki Obata Copy Share Image
“University entrance anxiety is regarded as one of the reasons that Korea has the highest suicide rate of any nation in the… — Euny Hong Copy Share Image
“Holding him like that moved me in a way I cannot describe, except to say I felt the seeds of death inside… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
