“For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age. This year for the first time since I was… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“And so it may be said of man in general that, befooled by hope, he dances into the arms of death.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Now I know that here is something higher than heaven and deeper than ocean and stranger than life and death and time.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started dying with my first breath. Why should I fear the transition called death. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Now I saw, without doubt or fear or ambivalence, that it was appropriate, even ethical, for me to provide this care. More:… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“Death is not one of our social managements; it is a scene with one character.” — Michel de Montaigne 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
“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
Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“I know this is all mere apparition compared to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively… — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
“Individual suicide was wasteful, but mass suicide that sent a message of defiance, and that encouraged future generations to fight oppression to… — Jeff Guinn Copy Share Image
“Instead of being superficial, death invites you to be a person of depth. Only someone who knows how to weep will really… — David Gibson Copy Share Image
[Sen. John] Kerry is also a man who opposes the death penalty, wants to restrict access to guns and voted against the… — David S. Broder Copy Share Image
“But is there not something strange about any room that has been occupied through generations? Death has lurked in it…love has been… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death. — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
“Did he still want it? Did he still want to live? Yes, yes, oh, God, yes, please. Because, O.K., the thing was—he… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Never try those battles you can't win. If you dare, Get ready to stand at might whether its death or a win. — Daniyal Butt Copy Share Image
Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“someone who fulfils a role in society as a producer of artefacts and activities which confront death by telling us we are… — Declan McGonagle Copy Share Image
The four most common cancers that account for about 80 percent of all cancer deaths are lung, breast, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer. — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“For humans, not fearing death is 99% a blessing, and only 1% a curse.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I used to know things intellectually, but now I feel them. Now I feel that my body is part of nature, so… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps. — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
“The effort mined a core of dizziness inside him. He resisted it, but then realizing that there was nothing attractive about consciousness,… — Lucius Shepard Copy Share Image
Most people try surviving by fighting. Thats all just waste of time according to me. You know why: Cuz at the end… — J-Young Copy Share Image