“Do not despise death, but be well content with it, since this, too, is one of those things that nature wills. For… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The thing about death is that it's embarrassing. No one wants to focus on it for very long. We're happy to talk… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Once you decide something put all your petty fears away. Your decision should vanquish them. I will tell you time and time… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“But in the Underworld these things may be accepted only after great inner battle. Death, in fact. Death of your hopes for… — Jane Meredith Copy Share Image
“Koschei brought you to me. You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor's horn-book and… — Henry de Vere Stacpoole Copy Share Image
Suppose one who had always continued blind be told by his guide that after he has advanced so many steps he shall… — David Berman Copy Share Image
“The road whinnies and rears up. The sky gallops. You are permanent within me in this chaos. Somewhere deep in my mind… — Miklos Radnoti Copy Share Image
“What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over? Through the years our business has… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
You can say what you want about all the guns in the country [the USA], all the drugs, all the crime, but… — Sonny Barger Copy Share Image
Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but… — Patrik Baboumian Copy Share Image
“It feels like a moment I've lived a thousand times before, as if everything is familiar, right up to the moment of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“True sanity entails the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self completely adjusted to our alienated social reality . . .… — Seth Farber Copy Share Image
Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let not death, nor the graveyard overcome you with fear, for every seed buried in its cold ground, resurrects forth anew, into… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Kit: Gone on where? Is he in Heaven? I mean, it seems so unlikely. Jessamine: Christopher! Kit: Seriously, You didn't know him.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“There is, in fact, no worldview more reprehensible in its arrogance than that of a religious believer: the creator of the universe… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies,… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“Precariousness and precarity are intersecting concepts. Lives are by definition precarious: they can be expunged at will or by accident; their persistence… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Death is knowing you're about to die,' says Mam. It's seeing the dead and seeing the living all at once. It's wanting… — David Almond Copy Share Image
“All our opinions are false and don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. We live ,we die. We as individuals don’t… — Ilwaad Isa Copy Share Image
Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“immortality of the soul is something of such vital importance to us that one must have lost all feeling not to care… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
“Behold, if you are in doubt as to my religion, (know that) I serve not those whom you serve besides Allah, but… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
“Most people live in fear of some terrible event changing their lives, the death of a loved one or a serious illness.… — Jamie Weisman Copy Share Image
“Our society has a tendency to ignore or diminish the value of the infirm and the frail elderly. Their suffering and physical… — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
To know you're apart of the universe, is by knowing your profoundly connected to your surroundings. You know that you're apart of… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“When friends asked how he was coping with his spectacular loss, he would say, ‘I sleep like a baby – I wake… — Siobhan Creaton Copy Share Image
Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image