O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“This kindly unjudging judgment of the Swede could well have been a new development in Jerry, compassion a few hours old. That… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Trust you? Rue--trust you? You counterfeited your own death rather than wed me. You told me you'd rather die than stay in… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep that death is slumber, And that its shapes… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder what will be the air conditioning of my dying days. What thing will they add that will make it… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and… — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
“A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
“I would enter the desert alone, to leave in the sand endless footprints only to be obliterated by the wind, to walk… — Leonard Seet Copy Share Image
Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for… — Scott Harshbarger Copy Share Image
I did ride a bike on the streets of Manhattan with four-and-a-half inch heels. Is that fun... or a death wish? You… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“He was astonished at how calm he found he was. Fear of death had always energised him, making him move far more… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“In all his forty-eight years upon this earth, Barry Flynn was certain of only two things: one; death trumped life, and two;… — La la la Copy Share Image
“...[Y]ou know very well the truth of what I [say]... I have incurred a great deal of bitter hostility; and this is… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it veru properly too and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have Hurt Myself over and over, ensure confusion and distraction as my way of living with my Pitied self.. I fear… — Samara Visser Copy Share Image
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't appreciate my life sober, but it's like there are two different people battling inside of me. I… — Nic Sheff Copy Share Image
“... a man's spirit could be torn apart and cease and yet his body keep on living...His spirit blasted away so that… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I mean even though we were going through our drama I would never wish death on nobody, you know what I'm sayin'… — The Notorious B.I.G Copy Share Image
“A few years ago, one who was generally believed to be a racketeer and murderer met death at the hands of his… — Venerable Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“You can’t atone for taking one life by saving another. What good does that do the dead?” “The dead,” she said. “And… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“I'm pretty well. So's the family, and so's the boys, except for a sort of rash as is a running through the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Okay so, this girl right here is my sister!:),3 I love her to death! we have like the same life story so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We live such tangled, fraught lives, he thought, but in the end we die like all the other animals and we're buried… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the Lord Jesus has already died for you. It is also a fact that you have already… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If… — Bill Wilson Copy Share Image
The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image