But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves… — William Browne Copy Share Image
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“I'd experienced loss. My parents were gone. Ren was... gone. But I was still here. I still had things to accomplish. I… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism),… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held… — Homer Copy Share Image
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Death about Heil Hitlering p. 117-118. You know, it actually makes me wonder if anyone ever lost an eye or injured a… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The opulent cars, driving by maniac males on the boulevard, A needy girl impetrating down on the roadway, Desperate humans, varied lifestyle,… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“You'd think that people would have figured out by now that sticking a fork into the toaster is perhaps not the best… — Gary Whitta Copy Share Image
“He did not deserve to die, and his death absolutely proves that life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In the wake of prevalent child rape and child abuse cases reported and unreported; Infliction of “Death Penalty” for child rape irrespective… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
“Don't say nothin' wotever about it, ma'am,' replied Sam. 'I only assisted natur, ma'am; as the doctor said to the boy's mother,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was as if the boy had already divined what his senses and intellect had not encompassed yet: that doomed wilderness whose… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“He thought about that visionary lady. To die, he thought, never knowing the fierce joy and attendant comfort of a loved one's… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Death may be due to a wide variety of diseases and disorders, but in every case the underlying physiological cause is a… — Dr. Milton Helpern Copy Share Image
“Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“LIVE OR DIE': the graffiti message on the pier at Santa Monica is mysterious, because we really have no choice between life… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He's this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if other people think about death - frequently, or just in general. I wonder if they think about it… — Courtney Carola Copy Share Image
“If Lana Walters had given any thought to dying, she’d have assumed it would hurt more. Instead, when the bus hit her,… — Mae Archer Copy Share Image
“Death is my art form--when I fight, I'm a ballerina. Graceful. Chi lacks my grace, but makes up for it in energy… — Eliza Crewe Copy Share Image
It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
“With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
“Hemalurgy, it is called, because of the connection to blood. It is not a coincidence, I believe, that death is always involved… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“This is the city of uncertainty, where routes and faces look alike and are not. Death will be like that. We will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
