The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it,… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
“Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held. He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only,… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
“After Giles Palot was burned to death, Sylvie’s mother went into a depression. For Sylvie this was the most shocking of the… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“They say that it is the fear of death and of what comes after death that makes men turn to religion as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“they felt like they were informed. It was a fine line--too much information led to more interrogation and too little information leads… — Stacey Rychener Copy Share Image
“Knowing those things are going to kill you," she said, "and still you do it." "How differently I might behave," Tom said,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.” — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
There has been too much silliness and cliche when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
“Living is the right to exercise Freedom any time without any guilt or whatsoever. Death is living without Freedom. Resurrection is living… — Freddy Sipho Mahhumane Copy Share Image
“A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman, "Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies?" "I do not have to forgive all my… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an… — John Sherman Cooper Copy Share Image
“Being-in-the-world means that I am inextricably knit into the fabric of this fluid, indivisible, and contingent reality I share with others. There… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We… — John Green Copy Share Image
There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Weeping willow with your tears running down, why do you always weep and frown? Is it because he left you one day?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To live is to be alive. Not living is not to be alive. The life we live is a temporal transitory moment.… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“They did not believe death was accidental-life might be, but death was deliberate. They did not believe Nature was ever askew-only inconvenient...The… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“When people told me I was so strong for surviving my daughter’s death, I wanted to scream. But the truth is that… — Lynda Cheldelin Fell Copy Share Image
“Eyewitness News' is a clever plot to convince us that all the important events are happening somewhere else, to other people, at… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“If those birds hadn't been so stupid, so incapable of learning that human beings were dangerous, the first settlers would almost certainly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. roger bevins iii It was the nature of things. hans vollman… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“Casy said solemnly, "This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Football teams that lost their matches can have many other chances to play in successive seasons; but a soul that is lost… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Emma dropped the letter. The first thing she felt was a sinking in her stomach and a trembling in her knees; then,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, it… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“I don’t know anything different about death than I ever have, but I feel differently. I inhabit this difference in feeling- or… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“Time hangs suspended, and yet it's about to end. Death should be a seduction, not a rape. Given one more minute he… — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
“When you're used to having nothing, nothing becomes your everything, and you never really want for anything. But it's a double-edged sword,… — Isaac Hooke Copy Share Image
