“Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst… — Jocelyn Murray Copy Share Image
The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life, — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
In our male-oriented God phase, it's always about conquering and control of life and death. This power leads to a kind of… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
“Isn't it always unfair - death always a kind of outrage? A life ended too soon with jagged and torn edges, a… — Rebecca Stott Copy Share Image
“…Preserve my eyes, which are irreplaceable. Preserve my heart, veins, bones, Against the slow death building in them like hornets until the… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
“I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
If my mom told one more story about how cute I looked in the bathtub when I was three years old I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death. — Arthur Adamov Copy Share Image
It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
“Insulin binds to receptors on the kidneys, activates them, and signals to the kidney to release calcium in the urine, in turn,… — Colin E. Champ Copy Share Image
“To All My Mariners in One Forget the many who talk much, say little, mean less and matter least Forget we live… — Samuel Hazo Copy Share Image
“The essential elements of a person come to light only when we must regard him as lost to us, when everything he… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“It scares us more than anything except death. Being alone. Our fear of solitude is so ingrained that given the choice of… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And if it is true...that we are each inhabited by some bit of divine light, then upon death, how long before those… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated… — Jack London Copy Share Image
