I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
“All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only… — Jon Vroman Copy Share Image
“Death’s shadow only fades little by little as time passes. There will never be more than a thin glass barrier between your… — Weihui Zhou Copy Share Image
“Philippe Ariès, in The Hour of Our Death, points out that the essential characteristic of death as it appears in the Chanson… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I would not leave a mother alone in her plight. They described how she had kept the news of my brother’s death… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Pope Benedict delivered an anti-euthanasia message this week, saying that people must accept death at 'the hour chosen by God.' And then… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
“Freud was right in positing a death instinct, and the development of weapons of destruction makes our present dilemma plain: we either… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
I just want to wrap my arms around you and tell you everything is okay and I am here for you but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“our most problematic dualism is not life fearing death but a fragile sense-of-self dreading its own groundlessness, according to Buddhism. By accepting… — David R. Loy Copy Share Image
“I remember that a couple, both tall and thin, turned away from a painting and peered over as if I might be… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Similarly, payments for a dead soldier amount to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is… — Ovid Copy Share Image
The number of human deaths due to hardening of the arteries and other similar diseases suggests that human beings were not meant… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“The unnatural beast plummeted to the ground, vainly attempting to keep his entrails in and put out the fire that covered him.… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
“Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge your eyes. Carve out your… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
The really good thing about 'Sleepy Hollow' is you have no idea who's going to die when... But then equally, we showed… — Tom Mison Copy Share Image
Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Now death was a place, a place to which people disappeared forever when they died, a place that gradually sucked away the… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“For the rest of mankind to be with Christ means death, but for Christians it is a means of grace. Baptism is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Just ten minutes, but everything was different now. He was different, the world was different. His father was nowhere in it. And… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant… — Clint Van Winkle Copy Share Image
Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually… — Saadi Yacef Copy Share Image
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Because the plan God has for each of our lives isn't always the same plan we have for ourselves, Grace. Sometimes, our… — S.L. Naeole Copy Share Image
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
But what is it that makes a person want to stay here on this earth anyway, and go on suffering the most… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
I am in reach of death's hand as I'm blinded by the path I took never to look back and only one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
“Oh my God, you are a child. If we leave you alone here, you'll freeze to death, you'll starve to death''. And… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
