Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead… — Neil Abramson Copy Share Image
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“And is death not the ultimate orgasm, a return to that otherworldly ether, whose very origins were indeed a Big Bang, the… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
“I want to tell you something today, something that I have known for a long while, and you know it too; but… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“In the last months of the war, when I raped in uniform – we were, by then, so full of death (and… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Death, like birth, is a secret of nature.” Only with birth you get a blanket and a bottle. You get a blanket… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
“She wished to sit down quietly and wait for her death, but not until she had cut the throats of her man… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking perfection in… — Paula Brackston Copy Share Image
“The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Excerpt: Paradox – Bound By Blood. The hands on a clock never falter, not for a second. One day ends; and a… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
“Liquor and loss were a desperate combination but particularly for my family, where the precipice between darkness and lightness was mired in… — Angela Amman Copy Share Image
My worst year. The only thing that I know for a fact now is that if it's really a bad day, then… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
“Grief produces an abundant energy that must find a way to burn itself up. And that is the fundamental problem, one that… — Bill Carter Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda," he told the Times. "I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
“brain activity in a heartbeat. All of that says Richard. But the DNA in consort with the paper trail of a genealogy… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Death rode out, but found himself guiding the white horse down the track to the orchard. He stopped in front of one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.’ The giving up of His will to God’s will in… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Fear of death and idolatry of youth have prompted vain neurotics to spend ever-greater fortunes on cosmetic products and surgeries to stave… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and… — Ben Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I sensed that he was dead, but wasn't sure if death was forever. It seemed best to stay nearby, in case the… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
“The Hermit I’d gladly climb the highest steeple To escape those middle minded people Jet Set Wedding I wake up screaming clutching… — Elissa Eaton Copy Share Image
“I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing? Hugo: No. Karsky: It is very… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“At the front, people die for their mistakes. Why should politicians be more gently treated? They made the war. They deserve a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The man who has lived his life totally, intensely, passionately, without any fear - without any fear that has been created in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It's okay to talk about it. Death is so normal, I don't know why everyone gets so hung up about it. We… — Rachel Ward Copy Share Image
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Buddhism also throws new, and I believe fuller, light on an oft-quoted passage from John’s Gospel: “Unless a grain of wheat falls… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree. Way… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“How can you know love, and lose it, and go on living without it, and not feel the loss forever?" "You can't,"… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
“women found physical hardship more endurable than anxiety, their ‘nerves’, and the consciousness that their never-ending reproductive state could lead to death.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image