“What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone’s memory. It was the only… — Andrea Lochen Copy Share Image
“The Thought of Death. It gives me a melancholy happiness to live in the midst of this confusion of streets, of necessities,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Is Dust immortal then, I ask'd him, so that we may see it blowing through the Centuries? But as Walter gave no… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I've just been around too much death today not to wonder why we find it appropriate to organize our festivities in and… — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
“All the same that one day should follow another; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; that one should wake up in the morning; see… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Her mood was suddenly in free fall, a state she knew all too well. A heaviness inside. A hollow loneliness. A need… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One day blurs into the next, one week is indistinguishable from another. Their existence consists of waiting for the weekend, then waiting… — Marta Acosta Copy Share Image
“From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Grief is a kick in the chest. It steals your breath, hits you so hard you think you’ll never stand back up… — Julie Johnson Copy Share Image
“Paul gives us a Biblical picture (remember I said I would try to stick to the Biblical picture). What meaning does baptism… — Patrick Davis Copy Share Image
“When you’re sick and dying, the ego is and should be the first thing to go. I know there’re gurus who teach… — J.R. Rain Copy Share Image
If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece,… — Simonides Copy Share Image
“Grace unfolds on every page [of Scripture]: God’s long march through the history of human rebellion and ruin to reach us with… — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“Thus began Outrage from liveless things; but Discord first Daughter of Sin, among th' irrational, Death introduc'd through fierce antipathie: Beast now… — John Milton Copy Share Image
As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“At such times I felt instinctively that a life and death struggle was going on inside me in which I, the owner… — Gopi Krishna Copy Share Image
O Nanak, the worldly achievements and glory is worthy of being burnt in the fire if it causes one to forget God.… — Guru Angad Copy Share Image
Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Sacred dying rituals are primarily and notably for the person dying. It takes great strength and courage to face death and to… — Megory Anderson Copy Share Image
LOVE and DEATH are two Uninvited Guests!! Nobody knows when they come but both do the same work one takes away the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements,… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
...the girl longed for a love that could not be ended by death. From the time she was young, she knew that… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
“But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“And gone the Godless destiny of death and desperation, and gone the madness of a life committed to uncare, and gone the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
“It must never be forgotten that initiatory death simultaneously signifies the end of the "natural," noncultural man, and passage to a new… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Three postcards await our perusal, yea, three visions of a world. One: I see a theme park where there are lots of… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image