“The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That,… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
“I felt cold just thinking about that, just how things come to an end, how death is subsumed in the pull of… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
When I was like, 5 years old, I used to have really bad nightmares about the Wicked Witch of the West from… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness, errors… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“I'll turn into a god of pain and disease and build an altar to you from the bones of your murderer. Their… — Ayize Jama-Everett Copy Share Image
“But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
“This is a poem about death, about the heart blanching in its fold of shadows because it knows someday it will be… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“There's a bug inside you. Growing in you, eating everything you've forced yourself to forget, everything you don't want to think about.… — Kouhei Kadono Copy Share Image
There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
“Anyone who had died young after a happy childhood had won a great victory, since he would be forever spared the discovery… — Carlos Baker Copy Share Image
I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played,… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
This isn’t really death,’ Tyler says. ‘We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old.’ I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You won’t kill me, you stupid worthless bitch. But you best believe that we will kill you. We’ll make your friend’s death… — Tina Nelson Copy Share Image
A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
A line of duty death, whether an officer, special agent, or professional staff employee, is personal to the FBI, and it's personal… — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years humanity has been trying to answer the question: “Do we have life after death?” Maybe for the first… — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
The worst part was the silence. Death was supposed to be loud — gunshots, explosions, screams and thunder. Not this eerie quiet… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Of course, immortality of the soul-- the bare soul, cleansed of any personality traces-- is rarely what is desired in the yearning… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
“The whole point is that time passes. That things fade. He is already hard to remember. Look, I used to cry because… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
By Cunning & Craft is a masterpiece of writing about writing. If, like Scheherazade, you had to spin out a story under… — Nora Gallagher Copy Share Image
Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Man’s beginning and man’s end would always be attended by only a few. Those that bore him at birth and those that… — Frederick Downs Jr Copy Share Image
If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A million times we've needed you, a million times we've cried. If love could've saved you, you would've never died. In life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Change is happening and old structures are falling in the form of a "Death of a Thousand Cuts." In other words one… — Spook Country William Gibson Copy Share Image
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
