“ 'If life is pain, one could say that killing is an act of compassion. I look forward to my own death,… — Amanda Steiger Copy Share Image
I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely… — Fats Waller Copy Share Image
Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death.… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“We need the life… We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were.… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“When I was tiny, the county fair came through town. Our parents took us, and got tickets for the rides, even though… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in dreams there are visions of the past. For that reason Alice Prentice had always welcomed sleep, but she suffered an… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“To accept the environmentalist argument that the suffering of individual animals is inconsequential compared to the ozone layer, we must be willing… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“Death is a friend we have not met, a voice we have not heard, a face we have not seen. Death is… — Joan Walsh Anglund Copy Share Image
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness… Live, then and be happy beloved children of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“We cannot live to be together Forever doomed to love and death, The latter bringing us together Claiming from life the final… — T.K. Varenko Copy Share Image
On this Holy Saturday, the final day of Lent, let our faith be made stronger; let us be more assured that sin… — Archbishop Cranmer Copy Share Image
It's an extraordinary experience to encounter the two kinds of deaths of my parents, one violent and jagged, it hits you like… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
“-I am being killed by what keeps me from dying. And next the sea became very small no bigger than a bathtub.… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“They say that if you really want to kill yourself, no one can stop you. There are too many ways to do… — Albert Borris Copy Share Image
At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it's a game played on the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Paul believed, in fact, that Jesus had gone through death and out the other side. Jesus had gone into a new mode… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of… — Anthony Rapp Copy Share Image
“The precious … uniqueness which the human individual claims is conferred on him not by possession of an immortal soul but by possession of… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“1. The Method of Instruction Adopted by Zen Masters. Thus far we have described the doctrine of Zen inculcated by both Chinese… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
A rat crept softly through the vegetation Dragging its slimy belly on the bank While I was fishing in the dullcanal On… — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“What did you see?” she asked gently. His brow furrowed, as if he could not understand the question. Then his eyes turned… — J. Anthony Torino Copy Share Image
One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“Had I not known that I was dead already I would have mourned my loss of life. —last words of Ota Dokan,… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“The Death of Jesus 28Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I… — Zondervan Publishing Copy Share Image
“The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“9. Abraham’s death (25:1 – 11) After Sarah’s death, Abraham took another wife, Keturah. Abraham was a rejuvenated old man and continued… — John H. Sailhamer Copy Share Image
“Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow, long march to… — Michelle Sagara West Copy Share Image
“… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance,… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE… — John Green Copy Share Image
“That if I had to choose between dying tomorrow or spending the rest of my life without him, I would seriously consider… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
