Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“This is American two-one-three to the cockpit voice recorder. Now we know what it’s like. It is worse than we’d ever imagined.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Several times per heartbeat, over and over from birth to death, we each separate the specific from the general, the figure from… — Ted Orland Copy Share Image
“The cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“In the end, dying isn’t the hard part. Everyone always treats death like it’s such a traumatic ordeal. But death is quiet… — Kimberly Gourgon Copy Share Image
“Since the dawn of existence, you mortals have feared dying, feared the unknown and the pain of it, and yet, pain is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“They said she killed herself.Everyone was saying It. What started out as a rumor, quietly whispered among small gatherings of polite people,… — Jessica Verday Copy Share Image
“If I lived forever, who knows what I would do?" he continues. "I would certainly get better at the piano. I would… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“She will not come back, but her beauty, her voice, will echo until the end of time. She believed in something beyond… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“In all things I saw the passion of life for growth and greatness, the drama of everlasting creation. I came to think… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown;… — Socrates Copy Share Image
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Im from Texas. In Texas we have the death penalty and we USE IT! Thats right¦ if you come to Texas and… — Ron White Copy Share Image
“If you want me, Koschei Bessmertny, tell me where your death is. Between us there must be no lies. To the world… — Cathrynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
The flesh is what traps us, because no one has ever chosen his or her body to live in, has he? It's… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
“Many people implicitly believe in the Hydraulic Theory of Violence: that humans harbor an inner drive toward aggression (a death instinct or… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“This was to me a far more terrible loss than the two that I had suffered before. For though, Lord help me,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“He started to talk about my writing and I stopped listening. It made me feel sick for people to talk about my… — Hemingway Ernest Copy Share Image
“Life is a fragile thing. You hold it in your hand for but a moment. Each heartbeat is a victory over death’s… — G.R. Matthews Copy Share Image
“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in… — L.T. Rorke Copy Share Image
“I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavors. Where might I be, if I were… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you have a baby you start thinking of death cuz' you see the opposite of life. I've calmed down now but… — Gurinder Chadha Copy Share Image
“Dissociation and denial. Woody Allen said, “I’m not afraid of dying. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” This… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“I am very tired. I watched the death of my friends who followed me here to the end of the world. They… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
The government of Libya announced the death of Moammar Gadhafi. This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Poor William! That dear child; he now sleeps with his angel mother. His friends mourn and weep, but he is at rest:… — Mary Shelly Copy Share Image
“But, sir, isn't death a dreadful thing?" asked Malcolm. "That depends on whether a man regards it as his fate or as… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“When the sun shall be folded up; and when the stars shall fall; and when the mountains shall be made to pass… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Those who sent the likes of Kenji out there to die these brave deaths, where are they today? They're carrying on with… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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