“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death. — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
“If there were no life beyond this earth-life, some people I have known would gain immortality by the nobility of our memory… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair. — George Gascon Copy Share Image
To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She’s standing above me the goddess of death, black lips and cold hands.” — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“When cells are no longer needed, they die with what can only be called great dignity. They take down all the struts… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Often, we need to ignore the words people say and attend to their underlying, urgent, life or death questions: Am I valuable?… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“To you this is a great mystery, but for me death holds no mystery: just three corpses, the ka of which are… — Paul Doherty Copy Share Image
I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by.… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Our children belong to God. We're only given them on loan from heaven. Sometimes God calls them home sooner tan we expected.” — Scarlet Wilson Copy Share Image
Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I praise God for what he has promised. I trust in God, so why should I be afraid? What can mere mortals… — Psalm 56:4 Copy Share Image
“my soul has shadows – nooks and crannies where griefs, like cobwebs, collect” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas where we would dive for pearls. My… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“Antipater, in a letter written upon the death of Aristotle, the philosopher, observes, "Amongst his other gifts he had that of persuasiveness";… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“His is the same fear most everyone has, everyone for me for the fact that I cannot.” — K. Weikel Copy Share Image
“Bye-bye. I'm off on a journey to the real world. 'Cause within this meta-reality what's real is this - my death.” — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first. — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
“As of today, I rebel against death! Work seems frivolous; I'm a proud man, and a lifetime's work would be too brief… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image