It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than… — John H Richardson Copy Share Image
“For it is too extreme and cruel a punishment for theft, and yet not sufficient to restrain men from theft. For simple… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“I think that there is a terrible possibility now, in the World. We may not brush it away, we must look at… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“That sense of loss is exactly what we must anticipate, prepare for, and cherish to the last of our days; for it… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“I guessed that only at the last possible minute did the soul in a determined fashion flee the dying flesh. Who could… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a… — Wilson Rawls Copy Share Image
“from the short story, Cielo Azul “Harry, get an ambulance.” I stood up and stepped back from the scene. I felt my… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“I've been very near death. And you can't imagine the wild elation of those moments- it's the sudden glimpse of the absurdity… — André Malraux Copy Share Image
The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“Life is filled with either problems or possibilities. When you look at a problem, but see opportunity instead, you become a powerful… — The Angel Affect Copy Share Image
I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share Image
“They say it takes a long time to comprehend a tragedy. You're numb. You can't adequately accept the grim reality. Again, that's… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“And me not sleeping tonight or tomorrow night or any night for a long while, now that this has started. And he… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I keep a fake smile, when really, I want to harm myself. I'm crying inside, I keep it inside, so I won't… — Kaile Stewart Copy Share Image
“In a famous seven-hundred-page judgment, a German court once concluded that there was no way the death of Anastasia could be conclusively… — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
“Would it be so strange to think that upon death, when there is no newly created consciousness in the continuation of our… — Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki Copy Share Image
“Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“At the edge you will always remember me, at the edge you will last be remembered, where sanity and insanity come together,… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“By not talking about death with our loved ones, not being clear through advanced directives, DNR (do not resuscitate) orders, and funeral… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because,… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“At the time of death, one says, ‘Dear Lord, extend my life for two more hours, so that a Gnani Purush [the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Go to the grave with a glint in your eye, dont look back and dont say goodbye, dont have regret and dont… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
The greatest love is not the die for, but the survive and live for, cus dying for love sometimes can simply means… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us;… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that… — Andy Webster Copy Share Image
“We are two men, two minute sparks of life; outside is the night and the circle of death. We sit on the… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“She had no idea, really, what it meant to see a man's arm ripped out by the root, to see a head… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Or say we have two rival dictators in a death grudge. Assuming ED289/290 develops nicely in pill form, allow me to slip… — George Saunders Copy Share Image