We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But he will fear least to become nothing in death who has recognized that he is already nothing now, and who consequently… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why… — Eleftherios Venizelos Copy Share Image
“if you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange...they all consider death… — Plato Copy Share Image
“And so, this was the final major theme we found: that when a group of people, no matter how small or ordinary,… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“The poignant words that Mme Duruflé addressed to one of her American students, saddened that his year's study with her had come… — James E. Frazier Copy Share Image
“In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can learn how to… — Jonathan Larson Copy Share Image
There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But the mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable remembrance, for she watched the death of seven sons in the course… — 2 Maccabees 7 20 Copy Share Image
“Children have accounted for increasingly large chunks of those deaths. In 1995, UNICEF reported that roughly two million kids had been killed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Living is hard--dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What's so difficult about that? Nothing really--except it… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
“Life is only a brief stop on the road to eternity. Our loved ones, acquaintances, and strangers pass away before our very… — Jeff W. Horton Copy Share Image
“Soldier and civilian, they died in their tens of thousands because death had been concocted for them, morality hitched like a halter… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
“From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“I went into the living room and looked down at my mother’s torn body and shook my head. It was surreal. I… — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead...… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death: I'll ne'er bear a base… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Death should hold no fear for a man as old as me, but it does. Isn’t that silly? It is always dark… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
“They lived in rural Michigan in the pre-automobile age, and for the most part they had never been fifty miles away from… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Those four Super Bowl losses? Yeah, it sucks that we didn't win, but what are you going to do about it? You… — Jim Kelly Copy Share Image
“One French ambassador, having witnessed the royal temper, confided, ‘When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s,… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“...that life is interwoven with suffering. That in every life without exception, illnesses are unavoidable. That we wil age, and that we… — jan phillip sendker Copy Share Image
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“My darling, I'm waiting for you — how long is a day in the dark, or a week? The fire is gone… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“If you take one thing from this book let it be this: even the dying are alive. If you're a reader with… — Hannah Hodgson Copy Share Image
“Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is… — Homer Copy Share Image
Thoughts are things. Negativity is what kills you... It's tough to do, but you've got to work at living, you know? Most… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The best part of my day is going to my own funeral. Watching an old part of me going six-foot under that… — Geraldine Vermaak Copy Share Image
“An image suddenly loomed in his mind: the greenhouse effect. Yes. The Earth is a gigantic greenhouse. With us planted here millions… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“The death penalty costs too much. Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image