“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“ I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Why would you ever choose to die?’ ‘Because a life with no end loses meaning. Death defines life. One day, I hope… — M.J. Hearle Copy Share Image
My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are… — Barbara Stocking Copy Share Image
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“When a group of people are forced to navigate a minefield together, everyone feels a grudging sense of comfort when someone else… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“From too much love of living From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The worst feeling in the world hands down is hopelessness, although it is not the only bad feeling. Other bad feelings include… — Matt Frisch Copy Share Image
“The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someone’s hand in yours and proceeding to squeeze it tightly, hurting… — Weston Locher Copy Share Image
Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that… — Dorian Cox Copy Share Image
We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
“many is the time the poor fellows, just buttoning the necks of their clean frocks, are startled by the cry of "There… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“As death approaches me, I regret this most, Pilgrim--aside from my loss of you. I regret that I blamed, so often, others--for… — Findley Timothy Copy Share Image
Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
I die a hundred deaths each day. I die when I see hungry people. Or people who're sad. I die when I… — Rekha Copy Share Image
“Who has not seen a frail, clinging-vine type of woman, who upon the death of her husband strainghtens up and becomes an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
“Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Those who romanticize war often like to think of it, at least in areas of mortal peril, as nothing but “guts and… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
“Living near the cross of Calvary thou mayst think of death with pleasure, and welcome it when it comes with intense delight.… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“A room in Holmhurst was the last thing she'd come to - better to lie down in the wood under the beech… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“Someone says we beign to die the minute we're born. Death is a part of life. Who knows why the Creator thins… — Jim Northup Copy Share Image
Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
In life, there's a lot that I'm afraid of. Death is always scary. My sister passed away. I'm not scared to die,… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
“I wonder-Did I peek through the veil impatiently, while you slowly forged the bonds that brought me to mortality? And do you… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
“Imagining the end of things, when you are a child, is perhaps impossible. The thin child, despite the war that was raging,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity.… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
My girlfriend's weird. One day she asked me, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“Most ordinary mortals, mistake money or visualize money in its physical form - as coins or currency. Thus they begin counting it,… — Vinod Pande Copy Share Image
. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
