De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone… — Kelvin Ogilvie Copy Share Image
At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Without God, life would end at the grave and our mortal experiences would have no purpose. Growth and progress would be temporary,… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
“Somehow, I thought it would be bigger.” Clary looked at the Cup in her hand. It was the size, perhaps, of an… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“On the street, men appeared to me like mad ghosts, old skeletons out of joint, whose bones, badly strung together, were falling… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
“He went to India with his capital, and there, according to a wild legend in our family, he was once seen riding… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My body is a political battlefield. It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“There are moments in life that contain instant knowledge. The first time expectant parents hear their baby's heartbeat and realize the world… — Vivian Lane Copy Share Image
“How come when mortals want things, their only option is to make a deal with Hell and sell their soul? Why can’t… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“He had recorded a message to be played upon his death. He had told no one—except Teela, his shopping companion and health… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“I did it all for me. Purely selfish. I worshiped the art and the act of death, over and over. It’s as… — Dennis Nilsen Copy Share Image
“Spring came late. For the children, shut in the dark, cold parsonage, adjusting to Aunt and getting over the death that brought… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“Life changes so quickly. Not long ago I was mourning the death of my parents and wondering if I could make it… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
“If If your hand came, dead in the dead of night, And touched my forehead, waking me to see You standing dead… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
“When we choose a generality, an idea, a cause, instead of a person, when this becomes the accepted, the required thing to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Giles' shameful death was, of course, the sign of a crazy old man's inability to adapt to a new world. But his… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“What do you fear when you fear everything? Time passing and not passing. Death and life. I could say my lungs never… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all? Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture killing and re-creating, death… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“We nearly pressed each other to death, our swollen lips and eyes, wishing up on ourselves the fall of tears, that great… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Recollection of death also serves as a useful preparation for the time when one actually has to face death. As the concluding… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
“As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The way the left is reacting to the death of Fidel Castro up against the incontrovertible facts of who he was, you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“So you will not kneel to me?" He said. I will kneel to no man, "She answered, preparing herself for the push… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“I may not have any power over it at the moment, but at some point that must change. I can be very… — Kelly McCullough Copy Share Image
As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The innumerable losses of industrial civilization’s collapse will, over time, bring forth a new story and a new relationship with people, resources,… — Carolyn Baker Copy Share Image
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“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
“This [custom], of not bending the knee upon Sunday, is a symbol of the resurrection, through which we have been set free,… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
That is Buddha`s meaning of nirvana: to be free from life and death, to be free from desire. The moment you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image