“We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered… — Doug Phillips Copy Share Image
“By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past,… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“When I met Millie, she was a hugger. She hugged over everything. I didn’t. We came to an agreement that hugs are… — H.M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Gray. The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It's not a cry of grief, she finds, nor one of pain or loss or sorrow; rather, its a shout of triumph,… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
“It is a great truth that you will rise again. It is a sweeter truth that you will "always be with the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
“We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.” And facing death… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“If there are more dead than living, then the world is about death, and the question is: What are we to do… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
“remember didn't you sneak away from camp to have a moment alone with What you felt stirring across the land . .… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
When people - everyday people who watch the coverage on CNN of Anita Sarkeesian having to cancel a speaking engagement due to death threats - think… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Some hopeless people who anticipate only death cite Scripture that says “I desire to depart and be with Christ” (Phil. 1:23). But… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“The death of the spirit is the price of progress. Nietzsche revealed this mystery of the Western apocalypse when he announced that… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“It’s like I’d been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net… — Margaret Peterson Haddix Copy Share Image
It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“ A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“ Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker do you remember when the earth was just a baby, settling in its skin, safe in… — Marcus Amaker Copy Share Image
“I have every reason to be sad, but I don't have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has… — Samantha Sotto Copy Share Image
Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and… — David Bradley Copy Share Image
Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“I was a ruthless bastard with a twisted mind who could look on death and find it pleasant. I could break an… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
“The time of man is coming, and of this I am certain: neither death, nor life, nor the spirits, nor the present,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments - changing the linens,… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“I understood that the most terrible thing in life is complete hopelessness... To cross out all the 'maybes' and give up the… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
