When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“For suppose, and mind it narrowly, that life is simply a shadow bodies cast inside themselves when struck by all those queerly… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“On the few occasions when we did visit my grandfather at the Evergreen Moral Home for the Aged Sick and Handicapped, I… — Hwee Hwee Tan Copy Share Image
I stole your childhood and now I’ve led you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew.… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
“Hey, I know planet earth is dying. So what do you want me to say? Grumble? Give me a break! These all… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“I just tried to put myself in her place and figure out what would be the scariest thing. If I thought I… — Patricia Gaffney Copy Share Image
“I look. There it is. I feel it. The insistent pull to the heart that the hawk brings, that very old longing… — Helen MacDonald Copy Share Image
Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out…In great grief,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“So how exactly was I supposed to wrap my head around the whole thing? I wasn’t entirely sure I could trust this… — Nessie Strange Copy Share Image
“We make the exchange in a place where no man can bring an army, or draw a sword, on pain of death.’… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
We stare at broken clocks, the hands don't turn anymore. The days turn into nights, empty hearts and empty places. The day… — Bring Me The Horizon Copy Share Image
“Depression is a painfully slow, crashing death. Mania is the other extreme, a wild roller coaster run off its tracks, an eight… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Since you're going to die anyway, why not go do whatever it is you are in the mood to do. To postpone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
“The gates of memory would roll open—old joys would stretch out their arms to them, old hopes and dreams would call to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your… — John Stott Copy Share Image
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Would not falling into your eyes - betrayed by life and death embrace /At least the wall of hatred between the two… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Nerissa was floating in a dream, a place outside of time, on the horizon of life and death, where fantasy and reality… — Rachel R. Smith Copy Share Image
I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying… — Kyffin Williams Copy Share Image
Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“His mother’s death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old,… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“When poachers target the matriarchs or older females—as they often do, because older elephants usually have larger tusks—they also destroy that lifetime… — Virginia Morell Copy Share Image
“This is your house, Reb. You are in the rafters, the floorboards, the walls, the lights. You are in every echo through… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“His eyes close, and he draws a long breath. When they open again, they’re colder than ever. “And that’s where you’d be… — T.L. Martin Copy Share Image
There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Words cause life, words cause death. Words cause sorrow but they also cause happiness. They can be used to give darkness and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5… — Mark Lawson Copy Share Image
“And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I… — John Green Copy Share Image
