The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for children, and for God,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Grief is not a feeling it is a capacity. It is not something that disables you, we are not on the receiving… — Stephen Jenkinson Copy Share Image
The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
“That would make sense,” she agreed. “The mortals wouldn’t understand what was happening. The Mist would obscure what they really saw. They’d… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The earth shall inherit the meek and the mighty alike. All are equal before the grave. — Harriet McBryde Johnson Copy Share Image
Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for… — Scott Harshbarger Copy Share Image
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“Only truth in the cosmos is love, All else is but lie. Life's only truth is love, All else is but death… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
“Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical needs of countless millions… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Letting go is the hardest thing. Everybody is so afraid. They're so afraid of eternity. They're so afraid of life. They're so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You should respect death and respect the dead, not out of fear, but because it's the proper human thing to do.” — Tom Jokinen Copy Share Image
I know things would be different if I weren't here, yet I know that some people fear death, but why is it… — Samantha Shirek Copy Share Image
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is as strong as death' "Ours… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I've never been to Ukraine, but I have heard it's very dangerous for a black man. There are crazy racists who have… — David Haye Copy Share Image
We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to. — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
“Lay down Your tired & weary head my friend. We have wept too long Night is falling And you are only sleeping… — José N. Harris 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
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“La Lowell wanted nothing; she lived for the day, unfettered, free, fearless; she wasn't afraid of poverty, loneliness, or infirmity. She accepted… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
“{Letter from Debbs to Eva Ingersoll, husband of Robert Ingersoll , just after the news of Robert's death} We were inexpressibly shocked… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along…well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It feels like a lot of times when I'm watching people perform, they're just going through the motions and checking boxes. Costume… — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
