“Here again, the difference between the effective and the virtual, between mourning and its possibility, seems fragile and porous. The anguished apprehension… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying.… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
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“That was magic, sweetest.” The witch flexed her fingers, wriggled them in front of her. “Did she think it a wave of… — Chris Galford Copy Share Image
“We are a generation which is crying loudly to tear down all structure in order to find freedom, and discovering, when order… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Good friends are often our lifelines. Mine have seen me through heartbreak, through the deaths of loved ones, and through that phase… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
“I know, then, that after I die other bodies, other eyeings, will be born. But this is really the same thing as… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Extraordinary,' said the Burgomaster, 'extraordinary. And now do you think of staying here in Riva with us?' 'I think not', said the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
All the things you need in the death transition, you need now in the life transition, because life is a transition, it… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“Now while my lips are living Their words must stay unsaid, And will my soul remember To speak when I am dead?… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
I wanted Season 2 of Luke Cage to be Ice Cube's 'Death Certificate,' or Fugees' 'The Score,' or Public Enemy's 'It Takes… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
“To insinuate that I would break an oath that I made to the ALMIGHTY for my own personal gain is an insult.… — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Once you are afraid of death you are bound to be afraid of life. That's why I am talking about this Hasidic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Practicing As a man in his last breath drops all he is carrying each breath is a little death that can set… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue,… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“This is your pendulum map. It’ll answer any yes or no question you ask. All you have to do is focus your… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
“Riding out of Rome that night, alone, it was almost impossible to fathom that I had lost so much in less than… — Julie A. Richman Copy Share Image
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“I shall leave the world, I feel, with more satisfaction for having come to know you. Knowing you persuades me more than… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostrils snuffed up the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
IT GOES SOMTHING LIKE THIS: AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER. HE QUOTED: OH WHAT IS IT, OR WHAT IT MUST BE… — LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Copy Share Image
Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“None of these things spells the death of a tolerant, morally diverse Open Society. But they do remind us that constant talk… — Gerald F. Gaus Copy Share Image
“The present generation has gazed with justified revulsion upon the whole late modern culture of violence and death; and it has noticed… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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“Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“A skull. A shell of death between me and my life. For years, that skull has stifled my better intentions. The bad… — Elena Dunkle Copy Share Image
Illness and problems are the specialties of life. But the death of a child is a cause of mental agony which can… — Munshi Premchand Copy Share Image
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