“Even though there is clearly a strong cultural no-no machine telling you not to summon them on what is functionally penalty of… — Jerry Holkins Copy Share Image
“But everyone remembered; what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her; the fat lady in the cab. Did it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The soul of man, like the bird in the shell, is still growing or ripening in sin or grace, till at last… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Say to your own minds, "I am He, I am He". Let it ring day and night in your minds like a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say,… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“What is it like?" "What is what like?" "Death. What is death like?" "He is quiet and still, and oh, so peaceful.… — Robin LaFevers Copy Share Image
Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate… — Judith Curry Copy Share Image
“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
I invented this wonderful death scene for Javert of going down on my knees and then leaning back like a limbo dancer… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half… — Jerry Coleman Copy Share Image
“The ovarian world is the product of a life rhythm. The moment a child is born it becomes part of a world… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“You can grieve for me the week before I die, if I’m scared and hurting, but when I gasp that last fleeting… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“He will love this music to death. In a few more years, he’ll snort at its sentiment and mock its stirring progressions.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Those who become offended do not fully realize how great a debt He has already paid for them to be free. They… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
“But whatever that fatal elixir is, that mixture of circumstance and temperament that leads a person to the edge of death and… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
“It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing… — Plato Copy Share Image
Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Too many people would rather fight to the death to defend their bullhead positions. Tyrone was impressed whenever someone changed their mind.… — Jack Kilborn Copy Share Image
Angel of Death' is like a history lesson, but as soon as we released it everybody was calling us Nazis. Our singer's… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Nothing essential happens through death, only through birth and that is the whole trouble - But shouldn't we be speaking of something… — Gustav Meyrink Copy Share Image
“So I’m figuring this is death. The little air left in the cockpit is toxic with marthenine, and I can only wonder… — Kea Alwang Copy Share Image
You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
There's a famous quotation from the time the Buddha learned of the deaths of two of his greatest disciples: "It's as if… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Let us put our hands today again at (God's) disposition and pray that he takes our hands to guide us. Let his… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain.… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his… — John Irving Copy Share Image