Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death.… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Humans need their lives to make sense and to have meaning and purpose. Lack of meaning and purpose can override both the… — Paul Valent Copy Share Image
They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No pansying out. Fight till the death, and definitely…no crying. If I should get caught and tortured… then everything I just said… — Cameo Renae Copy Share Image
At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Mr. Blue's way of death was fitting. He had been utterly corrupted by America, and I find it proper that his carotid… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
Why do we even make guns? I'm not against gun control. I'm against guns, period. I'm against anything at all that is… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“I don’t even like cemeteries. Morgues, either, nor anatomy museums, undertakers’ parlors, funeral chapels, or any of those places where the world… — Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis Copy Share Image
“There were people dying everywhere getting massacred in every town and village, there were people being picked up and thrown into dark… — Mirza Waheed Copy Share Image
“My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son of God, and that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“COSMIC DANCER" "I was dancing when I was twelve I was dancing when I was aaah I danced myself right out the… — Marc Bolan Copy Share Image
These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
“They lived in rural Michigan in the pre-automobile age, and for the most part they had never been fifty miles away from… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Those four Super Bowl losses? Yeah, it sucks that we didn't win, but what are you going to do about it? You… — Jim Kelly Copy Share Image
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“My darling, I'm waiting for you — how long is a day in the dark, or a week? The fire is gone… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“One French ambassador, having witnessed the royal temper, confided, ‘When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“...that life is interwoven with suffering. That in every life without exception, illnesses are unavoidable. That we wil age, and that we… — jan phillip sendker Copy Share Image
People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s,… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is… — Homer Copy Share Image
“If you take one thing from this book let it be this: even the dying are alive. If you're a reader with… — Hannah Hodgson Copy Share Image
You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Thoughts are things. Negativity is what kills you... It's tough to do, but you've got to work at living, you know? Most… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
The best part of my day is going to my own funeral. Watching an old part of me going six-foot under that… — Geraldine Vermaak Copy Share Image
“An image suddenly loomed in his mind: the greenhouse effect. Yes. The Earth is a gigantic greenhouse. With us planted here millions… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The death penalty costs too much. Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Curious that a man as selfish as he should be offering himself to the service of dead dogs. There must be other,… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“In truth, so far modern medicine hasn’t extended our natural life span by a single year. Its great achievement has been to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation,… — Roger Mahony Copy Share Image
ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“There are reasons why it is often difficult to reach our dead. When we do, our lives and everything we believe to… — April Slaughter Copy Share Image