“Despite a legacy consisting of enough violence and death for twenty men, Jackson admitted to having two regrets on his deathbed: “I… — Daniel O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I’ll not have you bleeding to death on me. That would be just like you, to die and leave me the work… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“Young Tchitcherine was the one who brought up political narcotics. Opiates of the people. Wimpe smiled back. An old, old smile to… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever died of a feeling, he would say to himself, not believing a word of it, as he sweated his way… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“Tell your friends I am the last of a dying race,' it said, grinning its sunken grin as it staggered and lurched… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason,… — Thomas Chatterton Copy Share Image
“Looking into Napoleon's eyes, Prince Andrei thought about the insignificance of grandeur, about the insignificance of life, the meaning of which no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made… — Nobuyoshi Araki Copy Share Image
“Explaining one's recent loss as more of a continuous journey rather than a dead end, giving one of the invaluable opportunity to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“Hell is indeed a fiery pit—but it’s not found in death, but rather in your stomach when you fail to speak your… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“She hovered above the mental abyss, kept from falling by force of will. Shut out the world by descending into darkness, the… — Taylor Stevens Copy Share Image
“Many losses have gone sinking daily by our inability to recognize the great deal of power reserved in us. Watch out and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“And in a mad trance Strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings We decay Like corpses in a charnel Fear & Grief… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Peaceful death is really an essential human right, more essential perhaps even than the right to vote or the right to justice;… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life.… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Some people's glasses are half full. I'm the one drinking them. Some people have forgotten that Pluto is still a planet. I… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“William’s weekend with his friends, Geoffrey and Maggie, was turning out to be neither restful nor enjoyable. Things could have been worse,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When you get older, you are told constantly that you should be there for your parents' deaths, otherwise you will regret it.… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
“I ask for guidance. And for courage. And I beg - oh, how I beg - that I never become so desensitized… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Bending over her bed, I saw the smile I must have seen when gaping up from the crib. Knowing death will come,… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing about death that makes it useful. Death was always a reminder to the living to live—to live in the… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image