I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment… We cannot ignore the fact that… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact… — Jenny Uglow Copy Share Image
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
You almost died.” “But you brought me back.” She cupped his face in her hands. “I always knew you were there. Death… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answer. "Clowns," he said. "Clowns."… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Take benefit of five before five: Your youth before your old age, Your health before your sickness, Your wealth before your poverty,… — Prophet Muhammad (PBUH Copy Share Image
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“Kim Jong-il’s hold on power was tenuous at best. After the death of Kim Il-sung, the leading members of the party changed… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a survivor of the Death March and his war buddies were among our neighbors. Where we lived in San… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“1. I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. 2. I am of the… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of… — Howard Bloom Copy Share Image
“Sleeping is terrifying. When you close your eyes and surrender your consciousness to the void, you lose yourself—voluntarily—and you're trustingly assuming you'll… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad Other things just make you swear and curse. When you're… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to be sorry that I ever undertook to write this book. Not that it bores me; I have nothing… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“He’d seen unequivocally that the chaos he’d dedicated his life to holding at bay was stronger and wider and more powerful than… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how… — Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz Copy Share Image
I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
“We only live once. We all have an expiration date after that we will never come again. I am not saying that… — Pablo Copy Share Image
When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
At the time, I didn't know why, but I know now that when I was a little boy, I was scared to… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
One can argue that true death only happens when the last bit of influence of yourself leaves this world and no longer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do you know how it feels to resign yourself to your fate? It is almost welcome. There was to be no more… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Part of living is acknowledging people’s pain and grief, but not letting it take over your heart. Though it’s always nighttime in… — Steven James Copy Share Image
“When ... asked what I am writing, I have answered, "A book about social class in America," ... It is if I… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Feel my pain with the pen, hoping my words of joys and sin can be felt before the end. This is where… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
“You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned to death. He makes… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You’re not going to disappear,” I said. “I won’t let you”. “Even if this is all there is? Going to school and… — Laekan Zea Kemp Copy Share Image
The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse… — David Sztybel Copy Share Image
Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are remedies for the want… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image