“Yeah', said Fats. 'Fucking and dying. That's it, innit? Fucking and dying. That's life.' 'Trying to get a fuck and trying not… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Any neuroscience book is the death of me. I'm currently obsessed with 'The Moral Landscape' from Sam Harris. He's a controversial writer… — Eiza Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“At first the weight of loss was thrust upon me so harshly I could only take a short breath, just enough to… — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that… — Thomas Arnold Copy Share Image
“Inherited ambitions distracted people from the surreal encroachment of death. Some suspected they did not know their true desires. They were entrenched… — Miranda Mellis Copy Share Image
To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“I was going to die. I was going to die, right now, right here, before I even had a chance to thoroughly… — Maya Bode Copy Share Image
“When I think of my father’s eyes I’m reminded of blood. I’m reminded of hate. I’m reminded of death. How in a… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“When a man destroys his fellow, people say that such a one is a murderer. When one set in authority destroys, it… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that I was suddenly in the presence of incosolable, unavoidable, and immense pain. The thought of that death… — Hélène Berr Copy Share Image
“When I come to the end of my life ― when I come to the real end, at the right time, my mind… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“- Everything's finished. Riders gallop black horses, a tyrant composes a sentence of death with grammatical errors. Youth dissolves in a day;… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
“Sure, you want me to be able to heal you if wolves attack again, right?” “Won’t you find that hard to do… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
“The problem is not that people are called to die to their sin, but rather that too many Christians are lined up… — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or… — Kgalema Motlanthe Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection,… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“You used to believe that with age you would become less unhappy, because you then would have reasons to be sad. When… — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all… — Lee Argus Copy Share Image
You don't need a marriage license to live with someone, to have the security of a home, to rear any number of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“The sovereign people determines life and death and happiness under conditions where experience and experiment alike show thought to be most difficult.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“To our benefit, death isn't affected by an economic failure, and it never takes a holiday. In addition, a bereaved rich man… — Jeffrey Ford Copy Share Image
In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“His will to live was waning, and it made him almost transparent, as though rather than dying, he might just disappear one… — Ian Morgan Cron Copy Share Image
Death releases the energy into air. If a true catastrophe is looming, the disturbance becomes such that a sensitive individual may become… — Jed Rubenfeld Copy Share Image
Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out… — Howard Dietz Copy Share Image