“Grief transforms you into someone you can't even recognize. For some it becomes a hard swim to the shores, becoming a fight… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
“How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there had been… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“I hate that her headstone has a year on it for when she was born and another for when she died but… — Juliann Garey Copy Share Image
She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols-and earth represents reality, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“I click on the deaths and read the names carefully, memorising them. Because here’s the simple truth—if I hadn’t taken the ship… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
“Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow. Juliet! ...O my love! my wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy… — Romeo and Juliet Copy Share Image
“I know the sound of each rock and stone And I embrace what others fear You are not to roam in this… — Bryan White Copy Share Image
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death;… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment… We cannot ignore the fact that… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Are you by yourself, darling? I can’t bear the thought of you dying alone. No, mum, I’m with my friend. I’m with… — Charlie Higson Copy Share Image
“Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact… — Jenny Uglow Copy Share Image
Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answer. "Clowns," he said. "Clowns."… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You almost died.” “But you brought me back.” She cupped his face in her hands. “I always knew you were there. Death… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Take benefit of five before five: Your youth before your old age, Your health before your sickness, Your wealth before your poverty,… — Prophet Muhammad (PBUH Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a survivor of the Death March and his war buddies were among our neighbors. Where we lived in San… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
“Kim Jong-il’s hold on power was tenuous at best. After the death of Kim Il-sung, the leading members of the party changed… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad Other things just make you swear and curse. When you're… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of… — Howard Bloom Copy Share Image
“1. I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. 2. I am of the… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
“Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Sleeping is terrifying. When you close your eyes and surrender your consciousness to the void, you lose yourself—voluntarily—and you're trustingly assuming you'll… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“He’d seen unequivocally that the chaos he’d dedicated his life to holding at bay was stronger and wider and more powerful than… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how… — Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to be sorry that I ever undertook to write this book. Not that it bores me; I have nothing… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We only live once. We all have an expiration date after that we will never come again. I am not saying that… — Pablo Copy Share Image
When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The immortality promised by the Moon Goddess was not a state of perfection or stasis in eternal light. She offers an ever-renewed… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us;… — Epicurus Copy Share Image