From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“For the real movements of a life are gradual, then sudden; they resist becoming anecdotes, they pulse like quasars from long-dead stars… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality. — Elizabeth Benedict Copy Share Image
I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“After the death of all living creatures, all our unfulfilled wishes and unspoken words will go on drifting in the stratosphere, they… — Yōko Tawada Copy Share Image
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“. . . No matter how screwed up the artist might be, there's still the chance that they can produce art that… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“When Rollo considers the introduction of a baby to their dynamic, the fear it invokes is new and uncomfortable. Life within the… — Matthew Revert Copy Share Image
When a family member commits suicide, the entire family is plunged into confusion and grief. Life is instinctually valued by all of… — Nikislonely Copy Share Image
After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
Then she declared loudly, "Smoke break!" and everyone's eyes came to us, some of them shocked seeing as these days you could… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“People say that your life flashes before your eyes before you die, but they’re wrong. It’s not your life that passes before… — Heather Jacobs Copy Share Image
“...why do we make it all seem like a crisis, over and over again? Why do we worry it all to death,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I said that the question about death, and more precisely, the confusion about death, lies at the very heart of human understanding,… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“Just because someone’s dead doesn’t mean you have to talk about them like they’re not there. He may be dead, but that… — Caleb Reese Copy Share Image
“I lost something after Hailey died. I'm not sure what to call it, but it's the device that stops ypu from telling… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
At the head of all these laws, in and through every particle of matter and force, stands One through whose command the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Hungry for beautiful words, the fox comes rooting around in the hedge, almost too close to the fire. He reads my mind… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“Oh, the different consciousness between the grieving and the dying! One sees midnight, the other joyful sunrise. One sees death, the other… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of… — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“I just meant that … I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too.… That sounds bad, like a… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Yeah.” I took another deep breath. “I’m gonna die, Emma.” “You mean eventually, right?” She blinked, and I could tell it hadn’t… — rachel vincent Copy Share Image
We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“When I lost Rose, I kept going, I still do, but I’ll never be what I was when she was alive. It’ll… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Well…it’s whether you want to face certain death by taking a risk on the other route or almost certain death by scaling… — Adele Rose Copy Share Image
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do,… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“The Buddha told his disciple Ananda to see impermanence, to see death with every breath. We must know death; we must die… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
