No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“someone told me at the beginning of that summer that I would come face-to-face with death because of a Romeo and Juliet… — Magan Vernon Copy Share Image
Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Woe, alas, to the one who shall have loved bodies, forms, appearances only. Death will take everything from him. Try to love… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantle piece,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The cemetery watchman left the room and returned with a tray holding three small skulls and a large one. I could feel… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Is that the summit of earthly happiness, the end of life - to love? I don't think it is. It may be… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt… — Kelly Braffet Copy Share Image
“And I say to mankind, be not curious about god, For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets. "Pass through," she… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Shiroyama’s heart stops. The earth’s pulse beats against his ear. An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth …… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Separation by death must finally be choked down, but separation in life is a long anguish, Chiang-nan is a pestilential land; no… — Tu Fu Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the death of my mother has made me the way I am today. I am a survivor, mentally… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
“He ignored her, still catching rain in his withered hands. “The mortal life is as futile as a raindrop.” He shook his… — Michayla Roth Copy Share Image
I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“The heart and the spirit also shed. They shed the emotions and experiences that we no longer need. They shed the things… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
Audrey didn't necessarily feel that she had accomplished anything. But she was serene, because Audrey was very realistic about death. She had… — Robert Wolders Copy Share Image
Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain,… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
A soul might very well exist, but we, as physicists, try to measure and quantify everything. So far, no one has been… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
From the mount of salvation somewhere in the etheric octave I descend, not alone to this place but all the way to… — Pearls Of Wisdom Copy Share Image
“For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people.… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. There… — Jacob Boehme Copy Share Image
“the room and studied the positions of the inert, twisted, blood-soaked bodies; they had become one with the lush cream-coloured carpet, which… — Bill Carson Copy Share Image
'Death Race' was a very modern action movie, and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera,… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Carey was one of those appalling people who wake refreshed and ready for anything every morning about an hour before everyone else,… — P.F. Chisholm Copy Share Image
Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America,… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
“Again, was it not this same presentiment of death that made it seem so strange to me now that I should never… — Shohei Ooka Copy Share Image
I lost my father when I was 21. I didn't cry at that instant. I understand what death is. But, was able… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My death could, in fact, save him. If it can't, no matter. It's enough to die of spite. To punish Haymitch, who,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“You can’t dread what you can’t experience. The only death we experience is that of other people. That’s as bad as it… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“It's a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructable in… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
“To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we die; and hope, which says… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“It was during that time he made me realize the scariest part about death, about being left behind—nothing else freezes after losing… — Jennifer Snyder Copy Share Image
