Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
But he was sick of this charade. Sick of watching people lose a little more of their humanity each day, and sick… — Brom Copy Share Image
“If complete enlightenment demands relinquishing the self, then complete enlightenment implies the acceptance of mortality. Not that there isn't more to being… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
“And as I had lifted no petition to Heaven to avert it - as I had neither joined my hands, nor bent… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“If you hear him beat that drum he will reveal something of himself to you, for what is a drumbeat, after all,… — Kei Miller Copy Share Image
C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I never asked to be born, and death's no question. The sun's still shining off the same old lessons, Then why does… — Amir Mohamed Copy Share Image
“And dreamed about death in the staggering particular, death as if death were still never yet heard of while something was ringing,… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
“She could almost feel him prodding her; urging her to go on. As the wails of pain and torment assulted her ears,… — Jaclyn A Wilson Copy Share Image
All you who are in love Aye and can not remove it I pity the pain that you endure. For experience lets… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Well,' Lydia said, 'I guess Armageddon's back on.' Eliot fought back a grin. 'You're smiling?', Lydia said. She looked at her car… — D.L.E. Roger Copy Share Image
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“What happened next? I retain nothing from those terrible minutes except indistinct memories which flash into my mind with sudden brutality, like… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
“Everybody knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently,’ Morrie said. ‘So we… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Senseless, you say? Death is senseless yet makes way for the living. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are,… — Ellen Raskin Copy Share Image
“Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“There is no other immortality: in the cold spring, the purple violets open. And yet, the heart is black, there is its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one’s life, but at some point the dynamic reverses itself: life models, or… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“The winter was not really winter at all, and therein may lie Key West's greatest charm. If one does not have to… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which… — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is quicker than the wind? Thought. What can cover the Earth? Darkness. Who are more numerous? The living or the dead?… — Paritoshik Sharma Copy Share Image
We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
“Child, you are finally going out to carry out missions. As your teacher, I am extremely relieved, but there are some instructions… — Yu Wo Copy Share Image
“Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men — this is mine: That a life spent in… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Woody Allen, who has made a fabulous career out of the fear of death, was once asked if he hoped to live… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If love doesn’t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death;… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
“Death is, and must be, deeply emotional. To intentionally cause death is to engender a form of intimacy, one that we’re not… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
