Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At least 20 percent of seriously ill people who are told that they are near death actually forget the news within a… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Death did not play favorites—He loved all equally. What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
“Something is beginning in order to end: adventure does not let itself be drawn out; it only makes sense when dead. I… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Hope could not outlast the breather. Love, however . . . Love was something not even death could conquer, because at the… — Ryan Graudin Copy Share Image
“Politics had seemed to become, even well before the age of Trump, a mortal affair. It was now zero-sum: When one side… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The sudden death of oak trees in where I live in Oakland is like a clear cry naturally emerging from nature, just… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
“The Cross of Christ is to be a reality to me not only once for all at my conversion, but all through… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
“But each one of us is guilty insofar as he remained inactive. The guilt of passivity is different. Impotence excuses; no moral… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“Final Disposition Others divided closets full of mother's things. From the earth, I took her poppies. I wanted those fandango folds of… — Jane Glazer Copy Share Image
In the offseason, why can't it be a little lighter? It's not life or death. I try to have a little fun,… — Steve Spurrier Copy Share Image
“He wondered again at the easy, graceful manner in which the Roman lyricists accepted the fact of death, as if the nothingness… — John Williams Copy Share Image
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me… — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
“Woss the matter with you?” asked Big Ted, irritably. “Go on. Press ‘D.’ Elvis Presley died in 1976.” I DON’T CARE WHAT… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll. — Saul Friedlander Copy Share Image
In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to… — Philip French Copy Share Image
“My favorite scene was my dying scene, when I had to stand up and suddenly in that moment recall my wife and… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
“And a real , undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible… — Francesca Marciano Copy Share Image
Let's admit it, when a loved one passes away, all the things they did, that you first thought were annoying, suddenly become… — Carniel Dunlop Copy Share Image
“In the Kübler-Ross model, there are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The model is supposed to apply… — A.D. Aliwat Copy Share Image
Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as the image of my father, whose life was spent like this, thinking of… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
I used to be the youngest person on the set [of Bored To Death]. Now I'm very often the oldest person on… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
“But as he stands before imminent death, he grasps its nature also, and the cosmic import of the step to come. His… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“Death should be a choice, something you may choose when your body is tired and you're ready to transition to the spirit's… — Marylayna Glynn Brown Copy Share Image
“Just walk fearlessly into the house of mourning, for grief is just love squaring up to its oldest enemy. And after all… — Catherine Burns Copy Share Image
“It's too weird to think about - how death seems to rewrite all the rules. People who never talked to each other… — Cat Clarke 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
Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax. — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“...[E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time...As far as I can tell, it's that last… — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
“shed a tear today smile tomorrow the world becomes mundane when gods become mortals a life unfulfilled an afterlife unpredictable not that… — VD Copy Share Image
Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image