“Most people would probably call me a ghost. I am, after all, dead. But I don't think of myself that way. It… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Beyond that he was a ghost of Uganda; in this nation of his birth he was under a death sentence for the… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“Grief is like cancer. It ebbs and flows within you. Then, it changes and transforms you. Forever. Grief. Cancer. Both force you… — Katherine Owen Copy Share Image
XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“This was it, the last time they would ever eat together beside a fire. The very last time. It was insane to… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life has been one great big joke, A dance that’s… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If things go wrong, I'll lead them away. Once it's clear, get back to the car. If you don't see me in… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“Psychologists have clinically observed that overly prolonged grief in the bereaved usually signifies a poor relationship with the one who died.” — Robert E. Neale Copy Share Image
“That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That’ll teach… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“Where you remain with a dying person, accompanying them as far as you can go, ultimately finding yourself standing still while they’ve… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Jesus was stoned, but no rock hit him. He slipped into the crowd and was found later teaching on a hill somewhere.… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
“The Chorus Line: A Rope-Jumping Rhyme we are the maids the ones you killed the ones you failed we danced in air… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is… — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
“The capitalist mind perceives the world purely in terms of material resources to be used for its benefit, to increase productivity and… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
I used to think that you see so many people dying. But now I see it the way my daddy told me.… — Johnnie Rose II Copy Share Image
“Rojer nodded, but his eye grew wet. Leesha squeezed his hand. "Herb Gatherers see death often," she told him. "No one, no… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Ask anyone where they were when they heard of Diana's death, and they won't hesitate, because nobody can forget. Along with 9/11,… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
“An empty bottle of Jack is almost just as beautiful as a new and unopened bottle...in the same sense as looking down… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“You Hang on to your pain like it means something; like it's worth something. Well, let me tell you, it's not worth… — Nancy Oliver Copy Share Image
“Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness - for then The spirits of the dead who stood In… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
“I wanted to say something good, something better, something real. I wanted to say I know what it’s like to lose yourself.… — Misha Horne Copy Share Image
“Get off," she said. "Get off now." Before its too late, and I decide to celebrate a narrow escape from death in… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is… — Bernard Membe Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The extraterrestrials finally understood the impact of their theories, stereotypes, and logical fallacies, but, too traumatized by the thought of death, they… — Lucy Carter Copy Share Image
“Dying, in other words — like combat, like becoming a parent, like any transformative life event — doesn’t always reveal or intensify… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“For every sentient being is God—omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, and eternal—pretending with the utmost sincerity and determination to be otherwise, to be a… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“I don't think we are cut out to be evil sorcerers, brothers," said Fentongoose. "If we were truly evil, we would not… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Cookery simulates the disguise of medicine, and pretends to know what food is the best for the body; and if the physician… — Plato Copy Share Image
“General Studies Question: Redundancy is often an unpleasant and unexpected event in someone's life. Give two examples of unexpected life events. Answer:… — Richard Benson Copy Share Image
“I can distinctly hear the beatings of the wings of the angel of death,” it went, in improbably elegant English, which Litvinenko… — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
