The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily view death as something negative. Death gives meaning to life. Living in fear of death is living in denial.… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I'm really tired of making these huge, over-$100 million movies where they literally mean life and death for a studio. It's really… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
“And that knowledge, bred in the bone, is what lies behind mob rule. Because to step outside the group, let alone to… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people see the terrible scenes of violence on television, when we mourn the death of each and every American man and… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Why couldn’t people just be who they were? Womanizers, drinkers, liars, and manipulators, instead of pretending around it all, hiding the secrets… — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
On the third day after Jesus' own death, He came out of the grave to give the world a sign it cannot… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“A lot of things in the house were broken or forgotten: the kitchen clock stopped, a closet doorknob coming off in my… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Inherently within the temperamental soul of humanity lies a shivering and thoroughly jealous irrational thought of death. Life has such a fickle… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified… after a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
People say the cross is a sign of how much man is worth. That’s not true. The cross is a sign of… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by… — Charles Bowers Copy Share Image
“Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Death’s precipice, whether first glimpsed from afar or discovered with the next step, was ever a surprise. A promise of the sudden… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The first time I took my daughters to the ocean - and I love the ocean but where we swim is very… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
Suicide is callling wondering what I will do to myself suicide is calling wondering if I will hang myself suicide is calling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
When a significant other - a spouse, a parent or someone you're close to - is dying, it forces you to think… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“It is unfair of me to say so, but the slogan Booth shouted from the stage of Ford's Theatre, the over-blown, self-important,… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“By my soul! I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver. "Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of eternal growth… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
When you hear that my body has ceased to exist, please do not feel sad. Just look deeply and see that my… — Chan Khong Copy Share Image
“Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize… — Alistair Urquhart Copy Share Image
“In The Future of an Illusion, Freud made the obvious point that religion suffered from one incurable deficiency: it was too clearly… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He estimates the number of deaths worldwide as 100 million, a larger number than the conventional estimate of 20 to 40 million.… — Gina Kolata Copy Share Image
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen.… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me. It's the "Braveheart" moment, the stuff Joseph Campbell… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
