“Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the… — Christopher Byford Copy Share Image
“When we nearly die, then, we find that we are not alone and presumably have never been alone. We have someone or… — Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino Copy Share Image
“From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road where we… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“Thus I stretch out my arms to my Saviour, who, after being foretold for four thousand years, came on earth to die… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because he can't, since for… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other… — William Law Copy Share Image
We were very proud in the sense that we would never take any government handouts. My parents, God bless them, never took… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
“All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels… — Brittney Griner Copy Share Image
“the headline death and disaster atop the latest dispatch from Homestead. “Capital and labor have met once more on a bloody field,”… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“And the king could find no sleep. Not then, not now, and still he waits to this day in a shell of… — C.M. Hayden Copy Share Image
In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“Just a few more minutes here, I suggest: life hates to leave, worried what it might miss. But Vernon, closer, is shaking… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“It has been reliably established that from 1933 to 1945 millions of innocent people were systematically slaughtered on command. Gas chambers were… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
“Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man… — Robert E. Neale Copy Share Image
“DAY 1 Scripture Meditation: Proverbs 18:21 - "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that… — Lynn R. Davis Copy Share Image
“The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“The body slows with mortal ache , yet my promise remains true at the closing of our days , A tender touch… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Again, as it was after Udayan’s death, there was an acute awareness of time, of the future looming, accelerating. The baby’s lifetime,… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
“Michael felt as if his heart might burst. With the death of the council he had felt as though he had lost… — Wendy Owens Copy Share Image
“We can argue all we want about how different guns were in the 1790s, when it took a minute to fire three… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“Baclli swarm within my portals Such as ne'r conceived by mortals, But, bred by scientists, Wise and hoary in some Olympian laboratory.… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Life is all about finding yourself through experiences, and about learning more and more about who you are and what you’re capable… — Zak Bagans Copy Share Image
“Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
“If I have been a fatalist, and have been a pessimistic child who awaits death every day, and who almost seeks it… — André Trocmé Copy Share Image
“Mortals are strange creatures; they cling to life even when that life is nothing but pain and misery, yet they will throw… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
