You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him… — Jack London Copy Share Image
As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large… — Wael Ghonim Copy Share Image
“With the buck before me suspended in immobility, there seems to be time for all things, time even to turn my gaze… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“I thought you were planning on talking him to death," Darius informed the golden bat dryly as he himself shape-shifted from a… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
“It is hard to know what a person would and wouldn't do in any specific instance. And you, spoiled child, apply the… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
It's no secret that we all are going to die someday,so why not live your life in courage and spiritual strength...because if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“...As she grew older, she was aware of her changing position on mortality. In her youth, the topic of death was philosophical;… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“There is the love that I love but don't want to love and try to bleed out so the love that I… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Death is your truest friend, and your most reliable adviser. If you have doubts about the course of your life, you have… — Florinda Donner Copy Share Image
“It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don't have to do it all… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
“Q. What is your only comfort in life and death? A. That I, with body and soul, both in life and death,… — Churches of Heidelberg Copy Share Image
“I cannot defeat cancer. Nobody defeats cancer. There is no winning or losing. There is no surviving or not surviving. There are… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly,… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama.… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
“At one point, field bocce was the only sport at the University of Oklahoma which included “dueling to the death” in its… — Andrew Heaton Copy Share Image
“It was almost a mystical experience. I do not know how else to put it. My mind outran time as he neared,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
[on Edward Snowden] He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be… — Mike Pompeo Copy Share Image
I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* *… — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live.… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“I couldn't work out what she actually wanted. Whether being dead happened in a pretty box on Welsh Street or someplace else,… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
“The phrase "after-life" was also vaguely confused with going to church and not wanting to be dead - a perplexity which can… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
'Who am I?' The answer is 'I am God'. The body comes and goes, but the Atma is permanent. The body has… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It put him in mind of the grand death of Julius Caesar, stabbed by a throng of Roman senators and dying very… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image