The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, concludes his book The Conquest of Happiness by describing a happy person thus: “Such a man feels… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
“But there, set as in the crater of a mountain of sand, and inaccessible to mortal footstep, stands unperishing the glory of… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
“MAO TSE-TUNG, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world’s population, was responsible for well over… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which… — George Sand Copy Share Image
...we are saved by Christ alone who raises us from the dead - from the absolution of our death. We come before… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“They felt certain that this baby was going to die. They felt it was suffering terribly. And they believed that my clever… — Daniel L. Everett Copy Share Image
“Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the… — Ellen Raskin Copy Share Image
“What’s left of what your body was —once the girl with bare shoulder blades , giggling, once the girl galloping an imaginary… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Did I have to be dead to get you to see me? Wake the fuck up, Ms. Lane. Dying is overrated. Human… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“When we surrender to apathy and expect the world to deliver everything to us, we deliver ourselves to a slow death and… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“He was obliged to walk against the wind, buffeted by the last shifting gusts of all the dead people he met along… — Maurizio de Giovanni Copy Share Image
In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Death does not come when the body is too exausted to live.Death comes because the brilliance inside of us can only be… — Michael Lee Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering,… — Bill Blass Copy Share Image
“The moments that precede sleep are very similar to death. We are filled by a torpor and it is impossible to know… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
“It seemed humans, the scientifically minded ones at least, were either tempting death or trying to prolong life. Surely that was an… — Kady Cross Copy Share Image
Some years later, long after he and Megadeth parted company, Jay Jones was stabbed to death with a butter knife during-rumor has… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
“Do I believe in an old man in the clouds with a white beard judging us mortals with a moral code from… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“…There is some firm place in me which knows that what happened to Wally, whatever it was, whatever it is that death… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“Even over the rumble of the quakes, I thought I heard Jack rasp, "Bebe?" Then louder: "Doan you do this!" I gasped… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“They were a motley assembly, each with some cause for anxiety stirring at his heart; though, after all, that is saying little… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
“possible. He has this attitude that nothing bad can happen to him, that he is protected in some way. I never have… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Consider the impasse of a one God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere since He is already everywhere.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Deep love creates deep fear. It looks like death because the I disappears, the you disappears - and it is a sort… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
