The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Gabriel,’ said Jerott firmly, ‘is now at Birgu, Malta, engaged in a life-and-death struggle for the Grand Mastership of the Order of… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
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[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks… — James Belushi Copy Share Image
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The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
When I'm gone, you won't be seeing me again, you won't be touching me, you won't be hugging me, you won't be… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
Twenty years from now, I am ganna look back and remember that you were that one person who could turn every frown… — Im_a_bad_bishh Copy Share Image
Now we're in a recession, and at war, so people want to see this chihuahua movie, The Fountain. To be told to… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“The main paused only a moment, then pulled the boy around so he could look the lad in the eye. "There's doing… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Do the uncomfortable. Become comfortable with these acts. Prove to yourself that your limiting beliefs die a quick death if you will… — Darren Rowse Copy Share Image
“I thought about the afterlife and wondered if people shared death stories. If so, i'd have the coolest story ever. You died… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
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You too must be of good hope as regards death, gentlemen of the jury, and keep this one truth in mind, that… — Socrates Copy Share Image
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There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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Masonry's conception of immortality is something for which man must qualify while still in the flesh. Through the fellowship of a moral… — William F Hammond Copy Share Image
We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
“But I being fond of true philosophy, Say very often to myself, 'Alas! All things that have been born were born to… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life's legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Lord Jesus, we praise you for your victory over death and your grace. In our moments of doubt and worry, remind us… — Northwestern Publishing House Copy Share Image
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
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“But in the weeks and months after Chidi died, still engulfed in darkness, I felt ready to die too; by which I… — Lauren Collins Copy Share Image
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