I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me;… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“If there was a hell beyond what he knew, he would welcome it. He had no reason not to. After all, a… — Ais Copy Share Image
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Nem csak hazai terepen futottam, hanem sokfelé. A levegő áramlásával együtt fogadtam be idegen városokat és tájakat. Ha nem a lábával, hanem… — Péter Nádas Copy Share Image
When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There’s no pearly gate, no prisms of colors… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
“Life is all about love. Everything — hate, lust, money, power, death, birth — it all stems from love. If life were… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When… — Linda Gregg Copy Share Image
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“When I heard the language of men uttered by my mare," continued Aravis, "I said to myself, the fear of death has… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior,… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live… — Wesley J. Smith Copy Share Image
If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death.… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I think 'Historian' is ultimately a positive record, but I was a little bit worried about taking people into a dark world.… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
“One target of the fifth UN Millennium Development Goal (UNMDG) to improve maternal health, is to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
(Written on gravestone) Stand here a foot and cast an eye, As you are now so once was I, As I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most… — Susan Schneider Copy Share Image
“When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ She died. Something about that verb,… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“The things that we mortals see as setbacks are, in truth, simply God’s way of redirecting our paths toward Him. And what… — Criswell Freeman Copy Share Image
“Because Peter promised them adventures and happiness and then took them away to the island where they died. They weren’t forever young,… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
“The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Death happens in many ways. When life becomes disgusting, some people choose the path of suicide. Removes the ghost of suicide from… — Saju Copy Share Image
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“I don't like him," I explained. "He annoys the hell out of me ninety-six percent of the time, and sometimes I'd like… — Kody Keplinger Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You are despicable and such cowards that you won't even share your dead bodies with the Earth, but put them inside wooden… — Carl Abrahamsson Copy Share Image
“While the squire pulled out a flat weed she was beside herself with pity for humanity. This short, this fearful loveliness, in… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
“You're fucked. You thought you were going to be someone, but now it's obvious you're nobody. You haven't got as much talent… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“No one is harming you, you are fine, you sit in silence, alone in a desolate park after the rain, or in… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Lord, I give my mouth to you today. May what comes forth be sweet and not bitter. May the journey each word… — Karen Ehman Copy Share Image
