In 1980, a woman promised her dying sister to change how Americans thought about breast cancer. Thirty years later, the result -… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“I want a book that acknowledges that life goes on, but death goes on too, that a person who is dead is… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“14. Zen and Nirvana. The beatitude of Zen is Nirvana, not in the Hinayanistic sense of the term, but in the sense… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our… — Christopher Locke Copy Share Image
What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have… — William Kidd Copy Share Image
With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an… — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
“I reply with a letter as brief as his: 'My brother, after my first battle the only thing I now worship is… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
“Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“This was what real grief felt like—she had never truly felt it before. All the times she had been sad, all the… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
A girl my age had been murdered in these woods and I'd seen her last terrified moments, watched her bleed to death… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and… — Ahmed Kathrada Copy Share Image
“(a) God intended Jesus to die as the climax of his rescue operation; (b) the intentions and actions that sent Jesus to… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
“struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
The reason that Islamist militants can assert that jihad is necessary against the perceived enemies of Islam is that there is sufficient… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“stage death with such Drury Lane melodrama. He left the words unspoken, struggling for decorum, but glared at the carefully arranged scene.… — Christine Merrill Copy Share Image
I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I thought anything might happen if I… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“deathAloneness has been my constant companion in life. I lost early the people that I loved: first when my young and unmarried… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Question and Answer Durban, Birmingham, Cape Town, Alabama, Johannesburg, Watts, The earth around Struggling, fighting, Dying--for what? A world to gain. Groping,… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“There were usually not nearly as many sick people inside the hospital as Yossarian saw outside the hospital, and there were generally… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone,… — Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
“There are certain shocks which, if sufficiently strong, seem to have power to destroy the balance of life. Such a shock would… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“We used to talk about death, she said. We don’t anymore. Why is that? I don’t know. It’s because it’s here. There’s… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I didn't reply I didn't think I could. I felt sick, perspiring, the way you do when you stand by yourself on… — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
“it doesn’t matter how old you are, how old your child was when he or she died, or the particular manner of… — David Bagby Copy Share Image
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
“There was an old joke about being left on a deserted island with an editor. You are starving. All you have left… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die he does not die a death of shame… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Neither sadist nor masochist, I still Must turn to violence: break, be broken. False image of myself I beg you: kill. Help… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image