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“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past,… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered… — Doug Phillips Copy Share Image
“Gray. The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“When I met Millie, she was a hugger. She hugged over everything. I didn’t. We came to an agreement that hugs are… — H.M. Ward Copy Share Image
Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a… — Beth Gibbons Copy Share Image
I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment… — Paul Jacob Copy Share Image
What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
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My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
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Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“I was a ruthless bastard with a twisted mind who could look on death and find it pleasant. I could break an… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
“The time of man is coming, and of this I am certain: neither death, nor life, nor the spirits, nor the present,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“The death of the spirit is the price of progress. Nietzsche revealed this mystery of the Western apocalypse when he announced that… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
“It’s like I’d been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net… — Margaret Peterson Haddix Copy Share Image
It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“I have every reason to be sad, but I don't have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has… — Samantha Sotto Copy Share Image
“ Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker do you remember when the earth was just a baby, settling in its skin, safe in… — Marcus Amaker Copy Share Image
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“There is no silence upon the earth or under the earth like the silence under the sea; No cries announcing birth, No… — E. J. Pratt Copy Share Image
When I got lucky enough to be successful as an actor, and I got involved in the anti-war stuff and gay rights… — Mike Farrell Copy Share Image
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The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
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