She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“How do I know that the love of life is not a delusion? Or that the fear of death is not like… — Chuang Tzu Copy Share Image
The word 'family' has always posed great difficulties. Until recently, high death rates for women in labour meant many stepmothers and, according… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The understanding that we reach a point where we stop becoming something and start ending as something. That comes at different times… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“I hold life sacred, even more since I’ve tasted freedom,... But I've lost my fear of death... But if you join me,… — Lily Blake Copy Share Image
We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Why is it that those who believe don’t fear death? To be absent from the body is to be present with the… — Slona North Copy Share Image
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“The anniversary date of a loved one's death is particularly significant. You will have done something you thought was impossible a few… — Bob Diets Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I represented a man on death row whose lawyers had spent all of eight hours looking into his claim of innocence. I… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Die, die we all pass away, But don't wear a frown coz it's really okay, And you might try to hide, And… — Danny Elfman - The Corpse Bride Copy Share Image
I believe if I should die, And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie Cold, dead, and dumb to all the… — Mary Ashley Townsend Copy Share Image
“It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death...to separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“what death is, and the fact that, if a man looks at it in itself, and by the abstractive power of reflection… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Such growth will move humans into ever-higher energy states, ultimately transforming our bodies into spiritual form and uniting this dimension of existence… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well The child cries out when From the right… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
“The clock is Shandy’s first symbol: under its influence, he is conceived and his misfortunes begin, which are the same thing according… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men command What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? What sweeter solace… — Nicholas Grimald Copy Share Image
“Da mu kažem: sam sam, hafiz-Muhamede, sam i tužan, pruži mi ruku i samo za čas budi mi prijatelj, otac, sin, drag… — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to… — William B. Travis Copy Share Image
“When you lose a friend [in battle] you have an overpowering desire to go back home and yell in everybody's ear, "This… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“You are Fire! Don’t believe these mere mortals. They want to put you on a pedestal and sing paeans to you; later… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
When I heard the death of Brittany I was in a state of shock and filled with sadness. She was a sweet,… — Stacey Dash Copy Share Image
Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own… — Ita Buttrose Copy Share Image
God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Memento mori,” the monarch whispered. “Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I mean, it's hard to talk about death without realizing that's our end too, right? I am constantly aware of death. It's… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image