“I’ve always hated it when authors seem to find joy In killing my favorite characters. With gleaming eyes they toy With turmoil… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“An uncomfortable marriage can not bear the strain of the death of a beloved donkey.” — Merrie Haskell Copy Share Image
“But I’ve been reading A Very Easy Death, about Simone de Beauvoir’s mother dying of cancer – it’s just brilliant. It really… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death:… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“This white hot pain, naturally, is basically nothing but a precise measure of the forces which hold this body together. It is… — Lars Gustafsson Copy Share Image
“It's sheer spitefulness to allow mortals to love because everybody dies but the love they cause to be in others doesn't die… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
“I have chosen the way of my death, which is something few of us are privileged to do.” — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws,… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, in Japan, when mother, or baby, or mother and baby die in childbirth, people say, ‘Ah…they die because gods decide so.’… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence;… — Martial Copy Share Image
To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run... is that not also… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore. " Avada Kedavra! ” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The real problem today is the ineffective and inconsistent oversight of professional boxing, which has led to continuing scandals, controversies, unethical practices,… — Charles W Pickering Copy Share Image
If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been there, and no struggle… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
