“What the real world is: that is a very difficult problem,' the man called Leader said as he lay on his stomach.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
“You start to understand that grief is chronic. That it’s more about remission and relapse than it is about a cure. What… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
“The Jetavana Temple bells ring the passing of all things. Twinned sala trees, white in full flower, declare the great man's certain… — Royall Tyler Copy Share Image
Don't live your life as if your going to live here forever. Nobody in the history of mankind has ever escaped death.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success:… — Susan Wells Bennett Copy Share Image
“Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning? For, if not, then ultimately there is no meaning to survival; for… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Or you can fake your own death," Bill suggested. "Because really, that's the most cathartic resolution—if all your friends and family think… — Jordan Castillo Price Copy Share Image
“I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I’m pretty sure he did not believe in God or an afterlife, but he had to believe that there is an immortality… — Daniel Radosh Copy Share Image
The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream… — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
“This is what language is: a habitual grief. A turn of speech for the everyday and ordinary abrasion of losses such as… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of immortality is the final doctrine of religion; … it speaks out what it has hitherto suppressed. If elsewhere the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has,… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny;… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
“Daily I am falling asleep in a room where I married a whole society of dreams that commingle and taste sweet but… — Abeer Abdullah Copy Share Image
Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde… — King James I Copy Share Image
Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“But the death of a great mage, who has many times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death’s… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There were billions of conscientious body cells oxidating away day and night like dumb animals at their complicated job of keeping him… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I just had such a blast coming up with this corporate dweeb [in the Sex Tape], a sort of nerd who was… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The homeland does not leave the body until the last moment, the moment of death. The fish, Even in the fisherman's net,… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
“But there is something delusional nonetheless in his optimistic certainty that human beings will wish to choose altruistic values without invoking transcendent… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“The shock of her death froze something in me. The child I loved, was gone, but I kept looking for her -… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I have never killed anyone, fictional or otherwise. I have no idea what it’s like to kill someone, but it seems like… — John Green Copy Share Image
Death is not a curse to be outwitted no matter the cost. Death is the natural pivot on which life turns, without… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise… — Denise Grover Swank Copy Share Image