There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything.… — David Hare Copy Share Image
I don't want to be vain or fearful, and I don't think I'll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“We gonna be a family again in Heaven. It takes some strong patience, but the Lord will come through. And as long… — Andrew Galasetti Copy Share Image
“The voice came from the night all around him, in his head and out of it. "What do you want?' it repeated.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
If Death Grips isn't the fourth horseman of a hip-hop apocalypse, its music at least tests the genre's threshold of extremity: The… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“Then I stop existing. She is talking, talking, takes off who knows where, she says it all starts over, speech, paths, butterflies… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens… — Jack London Copy Share Image
London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net.… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
“Hustling sex for cash ain’t dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin’ yourself in a different mindset. Always… — Jon Michaelsen Copy Share Image
I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He… — Mike D Copy Share Image
When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!' IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
To love is to risk rejection, to live is to risk dying and to hope is to risk failure. But risk must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Love is the thing that corrodes the mind and pushes it to do the unimaginable. Love is the thorn that barbs into… — Dahlia L. Summers Copy Share Image
He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I enjoy life so much I don't want it to end, and dying does worry me. If you've got faith, you believe… — David Jason Copy Share Image
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire,… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“And suddenly, in the place of the woman-shape made of shadow, there was something else. Something huge, something ugly. Linay flung up… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
“Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known--not long ago the… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away,… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
“I have tried to teach you the wonders of the spiritual world... ...I have tried to show how we mortals can attain… — Roger Kettle Copy Share Image
Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored.… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“How long will the Gilgamesh Project – the quest for immortality – take to complete? A hundred years? Five hundred years? A… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
![“I don't want to be vain or fearful, and I don't think I'll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if I want to do something, I will. From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.” quote by Drew Barrymore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/766/drew-barrymore-921_age_i-don-t-want-to-be-vain-or-fearful-and-i_2207880.jpg)
![“All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that have, at their core, the notion that equality is something the privileged group "gives" to those not so privileged - a reaching down, as it were.” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/859/george-saunders-317_belief_all-of-this-strife-on-the-political-fron_610812.jpg)
![“No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for dealing with vampires. He was a slime bucket, but now he was an undead slime bucket.” quote by Laurell K. Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c72/laurell-k-hamilton-199_buckets_no-death-hadn-t-changed-willie-much-but_698042.jpg)
![“I have tried to teach you the wonders of the spiritual world... ...I have tried to show how we mortals can attain such wisdom... ...and I've decided you're a pillock. [click on the thumbnail, art by Andrew Christine ]” quote by Roger Kettle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/027/roger-kettle-274079_death_i-have-tried-to-teach-you-the-wonders-of_346423.jpg)
