Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding… — George Pickett Copy Share Image
The desire of our hearts, of course, is not only to acquire salvation and immortality but also to attain eternal life with… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
My mom. She was quite a character. Open-minded. It was a very small town, and she started her own business, manufacturing children's… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
“Worms, fire, or the sea might consume my body. But my spirit will live in a world with no more wanderings and… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“Whenever in my dreams I see the dead, they always appear silent, bothered, strangely depressed, quite unlike their dear, bright selves. I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Often the women are burned, so that the death can be passed off as an accident. The killer usually becomes a local… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“She died calmly; and her countenance expressed affection even in death. I need not describe the feelings of those who dearest ties… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“The Poet Asks His Love to Write" Visceral love, living death, in vain, I wait your written word, and consider, with the… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When you pray to God resignedly, as though patiently accepting the punishment of grief at the death of a loved one, and… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?' called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed over the top of the shield. 'Above such… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“...I do not believe that the law of God permits a better man to be harmed by a worse. No doubt my… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“i knew tht we all have the capacity to act in self-destructive ways, nevertheless i had a kind of faith that the… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“She is no longer a solitary being. She is a million different parts, each reborn, granted the miracle she prayed for in… — Victoria Kahler Copy Share Image
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
“Declaring independence will result in evil because apart from me, you can draw only upon yourself. That is death because you have… — William Paul Young Copy Share Image
“An English man-at-arms had his helmet split open and his skull with it, so that he rode wavering from the fight, blood… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“Suppose after all that death does end all. Next to eternal joy, next to being forever with those we love and those… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In the U.K. we can be quite uptight about death. Maybe we think if we don't make a noise, it might not… — Lou Sanders Copy Share Image
“I killed a man for his shoes, and then I realized his feet were much smaller than mine. So I walked around… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
“In conclusion, the death of Christ was not about God the Father needing to vent His rage and fury upon a sacrificial… — Jeff Turner Copy Share Image
We live to die, and we die to live. I see no difference between life and death. Because we suffer so much… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Airey Neave's escape from Colditz, quite possibly the most remarkable thing a British politician has ever done, defined his years to come.… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“If man must himself die, after first losing his most beloved ones by death, he would prefer that his life be forfeit… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he’d lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
“There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“The only thing that [Amaranta] did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pleas to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I am a black bird, a Raven, I am Raven. I know and I am knowing—I know and see life and death,… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image