“when you're young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting alone in the closet can fire your bones; when you're old… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull… — Maia Wojciechowska Copy Share Image
“What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do,… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Disappointment is like a death! In most cases both are not preplanned. They both come when they will come. Only that the… — Femi Olalekan Erejuwa Komolafe Copy Share Image
Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“It’s as if Sarajevo is slowly dying, disappearing. Life is disappearing. So how can I feel spring, when spring is something that… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Sin is the transgression of the law, the death of Christ is the satisfaction of the law, justification is the verdict of… — Ernest Kevan Copy Share Image
When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“Something deep in the human soul awakens as things fall apart. Something in the soul knows that everything in this world can… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
It is only by spring that the death of the autumns returns. What about winter, which is death? When the pure snow… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Lew had never seen a dead man before. He just stood there, and looked and looked. Then he went a step closer,… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“There came a time, however, when death ceased to be the enforcer of finitude and began to look, instead, like the last… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
I have died in so many spectacular ways, and I remember shooting them all, too. I imagine all those deaths will flash… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“Our conceptual maps tend to lack a way to conceive the immanence of violence and power in the ideals and practices that… — Deborah Root Copy Share Image
If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“...I swear Dev your cock is going to be the death of us all.' Dev just sat back and smiled unrepentantly. 'I… — Lanie Malone Copy Share Image
“I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
“I had no choice but to pray for his death. Typically enough, the one thing that never occurred to me was to… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna… — Robin Stevenson Copy Share Image
Remember when we used to hold hands, promising forever, we was young and together. And together we shall stay until the day..… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. Terror was brought to many countries on his direct… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
“All of creation suffers, young ones. Only in accepting our own mortality can we make a difference. Only in bearing the burden… — Simon Spurrier Copy Share Image
The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“As Proverbs 18:21 points out, life and death are in the power of the tongue. If you lend credence to a continual… — John Herrick Copy Share Image
You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death.… — Michael Palmer Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Love may be the one thing in this world today that is not mad, sir. For, what could be more sane than… — Jeffrey Perren Copy Share Image
Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In the opera, there was only one great love for the characters. In... tales there was only one love as well -… — Lenore Hart Copy Share Image
3 days ago, my best friend died. 2 days ago, I found out that she was an organ donor. 1 day ago,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
