The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“When life comes knockin', it's the heartbroken doo-wop singer who understands regret and the price of loving, the hard-living soul man who… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“He and Onno had once come to the conclusion that you had to decide for yourself whether after your death you wanted… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
“Face it, George – unlike cholera, death is the only disease everyone is guaranteed to get.’ Heath nodded slowly. ‘But usually only… — Nigel Holloway Copy Share Image
“Almost all official statistics and policy documents on wages, income, gross domestic product (GDP), crime, unemployment rates, innovation rates, cost of living… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“How did your mother die?” asked Delk. “Car accident,” Katie replied, gazing out over the water. “She’d been to mass. A tire… — Suzanne Supplee Copy Share Image
“A woman sees herself dying, in these cases not at the actual moment of death but months, sometimes years before, when death… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Anyway, she thinks we're going to be all right. Like she says, a positive attitude is ninety-seven percent of the battle." This… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
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“Love, the future is thine. Death, I make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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“Moor did not have tuberculosis or kidney trouble or undulant fever.He was sick with the sickness of death.Death was in every cell… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Jon Snow, is this a proper castle now? Not just a tower?” “It is.” Jon took her hand. “Good,” she whispered. “I… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Are you afraid of cemeteries? Yes, you can be! But you know, I think the cemetery is also afraid of you, because… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
Death cannot touch the higher consciousness of man ... it can only separate those who love each other so far as their… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“I was only giving expression to a sad reflection that was rising in my mind. Kichijiro was right in saying that all… — Shusaku Endo Copy Share Image
“Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director,… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
If my tears could build a stairway, so you could walk back down to me, I'd cry the tallest staircase, so you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
You probably don't think twice about going into your kitchen and turning a few knobs to prepare a meal for yourself and… — Kathy Calvin Copy Share Image
Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“...this would be my greatest fear: imagination giving up before the body does. I guess I'm not alone in this. Humans are… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“For all malignant cancers, both fish eaters and vegetarians and vegans combined had significantly lower mortality than regular meat eaters [HR: 0.76… — Paul Appleby Copy Share Image
“They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whenever people would speculate about the death of my grandfather it was always this very retributive thing. That they were going to… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
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I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all… — Homer Copy Share Image
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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the… — Plato Copy Share Image
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