Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“If seeing her an hour before her last Weak cough into all blackness I could yet Be held by chalk-white walls -… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
When someone so close to you dies, you do think of your own mortality. — Coleen Nolan Copy Share Image
“Sophie Scholl faced her own death with supreme fearlessness and a deep faith in her moral, political and religious convictions. She showed… — Frank McDonough Copy Share Image
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Death was surely not an ephemeral interloper; its lasting effect was grating and horrible and one was constantly reminded of the permanence… — Henry H. Roth Copy Share Image
“I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week. — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time.” — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“Once we understand that the activity in the spirit realm is more real than what we experience in this world, wonders like… — Daniel Duval Copy Share Image
“A warrior knows death is always a hair's breadth away, but he doesn't dwell on the possibility of his death when he… — D.C. Grace Copy Share Image
The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own… — Ita Buttrose Copy Share Image
We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end.… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“But where do we find what's lasting? Where do the deathless things hide?” — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here. — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image