Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Together they listed the people they had known who had died on the mountains. A bleak conversation to have, thought Margrét, but… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“No matter how limited their powers of reason might have been. still they must have understood that living like that was just… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“They say that nothing can stand against such a man, for the one gun – that marked Mutiny – deals instant death,… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is… — Rupert Holmes Copy Share Image
I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years,… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“She will not come back, but her beauty, her voice, will echo until the end of time. She believed in something beyond… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“Literature, after all, from Homer onwards, is littered with the recounting of deaths and with the fascination for death, and in this… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . .… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“{ Yogananda on the death of his dear friend, the eminent 20th century scientist, Luther Burbank } His heart was fathomlessly deep,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Being under him, trapped, objectified, I lost all fear. With Jonathan, I felt safe. I felt a loss of control so complete,… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
“I hear the door open again behind me. “Honestly, Eleanor, I will not move in with you. You’re welcome to come to… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Loss invites reflection and reformulating and a change of strategies. Loss hurts and bleeds and aches. Loss is always ready to call… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
“As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“Death will reveal what you otherwise would have finished. Also what you never would have finished. I found the notes for a… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Feeding the hungry, healing the sick, rebuking hypocrisy, pleading for faith--this was Christ showing us the way of the Father... In His… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Elijah kisses my forehead and I close my eyes as an anxious feeling pumps through me. It’s me and him, for better… — Lauren Hammond Copy Share Image
“We validate a dying that can be seen and understood. that we can grasp that we can smell. a dying that is… — Paraschiva Florescu Copy Share Image
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly love. Don't bundle someone into an uncomfortable cage just because you… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“You can not figure out love without figuring out death, too, but the effort it takes can knock the wind out of… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“the involuntary loss of any familiar object almost always brings a chill as from an evil omen; it seems to be the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Leo the Great preached, “Truly wondrous is the whole chronicle of the incarnation. From the time when Christ came, the ancient slavery… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
If death really pity how people will feel in going through the pains & the tears of loosing a love ones then… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice,… — Anna White Copy Share Image
