“She will have the solidity that she wants. She will fight for it and kill for it, because she’s had to do… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying… — Michael Bruce Copy Share Image
“I feel like my life is made up of tiny puzzle parts that no longer fit together. Imagine working on a puzzle… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
I definitely think about death. And every day your relationship with death changes. And every day I sort of feel like I… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
We often hear Islamists declare, 'We love death as much as you people in the west love life.' Well, if we're going… — Irshad Manji Copy Share Image
“November was the transition month. A sort of purgatory. It was the cold damp breath between dying and death. Between fall and… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Bread of the world, in mercy broken, Wine of the soul, in mercy shed, By whom the words of life were spoken,… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The general welcomes Tamburlaine receiv'd, When he arrived last upon the 1 stage, Have made our poet pen his Second… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it… — Bill Shankly Copy Share Image
Everyone is going to taste death, and We shall make a trial of you with evil and with good, and to Us… — Kaceem Aveiro Copy Share Image
“it is a law of nature; their fathers died before them, and they mourned their loss; they will die before their children,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
There are millions of white Americans today who still can barely bring themselves to acknowledge that the Civil War, with its twin… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
“Those of us with the courage to open ourselves to that much love and not fear it - who can give joy… — Derek Miller Copy Share Image
People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win…This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands…But people who… — Kenneth Roberts Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“consequences. It brings death instead of life and perfection. It is sin, the breaking of the law that prevents men and women… — Dennis Prince Copy Share Image
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The driver thought I was crazy—but then his religion thinks stoning a woman to death for adultery is reasonable, so I figured… — Terry Hayes Copy Share Image
I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“The only absolute truth is change, and death is the only way to stop change. Life is a series of judgments on… — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She isn't a storm or a leader or a king or a war or anyone whose life and death makes noise. The… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“We were enemies to the core, more so now than ever, but my loss was his. When I suffered, he suffered. It… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth… — Ilan Stavans Copy Share Image
Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Mortals lie. Mortals steal. Mortals cheat. Such is the way of all sapient life. No species is exempt, no culture free of… — Ian Rodgers Copy Share Image
I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Darashikoh was inside, for all the world a tastefully dressed patron of the shop, but he carried death in his undershorts and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Environmentalists like to say that defeats are permanent, victories temporary. Extinction, like death, is forever, but protection needs to be maintained. But… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image