“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Because that's what you do when something terrible happens. You go over and over every little thing, looking for clues, trying to… — Julia Green Copy Share Image
There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
“But is there not something strange about any room that has been occupied through generations? Death has lurked in it…love has been… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. The leading causes of disease and death in developed nations—diseases that are crippling health-care… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people.… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“There is one in this tribe too often miserable - a child bereaved of both parents. None cares for this child: she… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The good news is that we don't last. Thank heavens! Because to continue the drama of who you are, is boring, ultimately.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Those who sent the likes of Kenji out there to die these brave deaths, where are they today? They're carrying on with… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It is natural to care for those who have cared for us, but at the point a man has been dead a… — Joshua Gibbs Copy Share Image
“When they came into their trench he felt small enough. The biggest thing there was the roaring of Death and the smallest… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“A great Zen master said just before he died, "From the bathtub, to the bathtub, I have uttered stuff and nonsense." The… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone… — Hal Turner Copy Share Image
When I was running for governor, I was attacked pretty strongly because of my position on the death penalty. But I looked… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
“The whole universe is now an orphanage. But then there's Jesus. When we were still orphans, Christ became a substitute orphan for… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The seeking of a lover to embody these words; the pining for a love that will be unconditional; the search for a… — Daniel Bergner Copy Share Image
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I know how you feel. I’ve been analyzed to death as well. Not, like, professionally, though I did date a psych major… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“But dying was no drama. Dying was cold and hard and painful, and dull. It went on too long. I was exhausted… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“Gloria laughed at them and said that she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone wanting to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Then suddenly he beheld his sister Éowyn as she lay, and he knew her. He stood a moment as a man who… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Sisyphus cheated death,” Nico explained. “First he chained up Thanatos, the reaper of souls, so no one could die. Then when Thanatos… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The only hope I have left for you hangs on a great doubt - the doubt whether we are, or are not,… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“In my late thirties the dream of disappointment and exhaustion had been the dream of the exploding head: the dream of a… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“When Alexander The Great was alive the world was not big enough to contain his ambition but while Alexander chafed at the… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
It was the '50s, and the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal System were in fashion. I hung out in the 812… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats… — Raymond Briggs Copy Share Image
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches… — Rose of Lima Copy Share Image
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting… — Pindar Copy Share Image
“Death has a body like a model, the clothes of a poet and the smile of your best friend. She wears a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
