“Beloved, how many there are who have heard of Christ and read about Christ, and that is enough for them! But it… — Spurgeon, Charles H Copy Share Image
“Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres . . . quit the ranks. That's the sign of… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The number one killer of children in Rwanda is malaria. Since the United States of America stood up and working with Rwandans,… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over,' said Amanda in a scandalized voice. 'It's her own… — Saki Copy Share Image
“It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. There… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Hope lives. No matter the mistakes we make, no matter our blunders and misunderstandings, no matter the grief and sorrow and loss,… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
“The potential for loss of soul--to one degree or another--is the affliction of a society that as a collective has lost its… — Daphne Rose Kingma Copy Share Image
“The handless clock trying to hold the hour of death, salt in the last mouthful of water. The windows opaque with silence,… — Warren Heiti Copy Share Image
“Grief is like a well: you can never truly leave it but the walls grow wider and wider until one day you… — M.A. Kuzniar Copy Share Image
It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise,… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
“Don't look at me like that, Augusta." He stood to pull his shirt over his head. "I don't deserve it. No mortal… — Grace Burrowes Copy Share Image
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“This book carries the urgency of racing against time, of having important things to say. Paul confronted death—examined it, wrestled with it,… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“Fanaticism is the death of conversation. We do not gossip with a candidate for martyrdom. What are we to say to someone… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Although everyone knows death comes in the end, you have this stupid mind which keeps on saying, 'But I won't die today… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“In the last six months,” he went on, “there have been two deaths, apparently by suicide. The victims were both high-level banking… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life?… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for. Nobody was ever on any account to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“That day, that day when I can gaze at the sea--both of us calm--and I, trusting, having poured my whole heart into… — Juan Ramón Jiménez Copy Share Image
“Dearest love, let me count the ways. Dismemberment, garroted, poisoned, drowned, named. I read that as soon as a species is named… — Lindsay Hunter Copy Share Image
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong,… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“One world: everybody fucks everybody. When he thinks of all the fucking there's been in the world and all the fucking there's… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
“Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life—a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple—the painter is giving you… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Rachel would call the vet this morning, they would get Church fixed, and that would put this whole nonsense of Pet Semataries(it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The unfailing rhythm of the seasons, the ever-turning wheel of life, the four facets of the earth which are lit in turn… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“There's a certain language, a dying language, and I can't remember who speaks it or where in the world they are, but… — Andra Brynn Copy Share Image
“It was as though they were intentionally stepping nearer to their graves. As he sat waiting on the edge of the bed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Everybody hits a registry office at some point in their life, or at least, you know, a member of your family at… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
“I liked the idea of bouncy, open-air Jeeps and I liked the outfits with all the pockets, only I didn't really want… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
