How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“We stopped you from going, didn't we? Me and Shiva. Our birth?" Don't be silly. Can you imagine me giving up this?"… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
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“Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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To love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it. when grief weights you like your own flesh… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“Death. From the moment we are born we begin to die. It is a slow march to the final curtain call for… — Angela L. Hansen Copy Share Image
“Indeed, taxation and other forms of aggression-through-government are so taken for granted in our culture that one of our most popular sayings… — Mary J. Ruwart Copy Share Image
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Death must obliterate all memories and affections and ideas and laws, or the awakening in the next world will be amid the… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
Soyinka's Death at Dawn, Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska's Some People come to… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
“While nuclear fusion is great achievement, it is important that we look into the negative aspects of it. The development of nuclear… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, l clothed with a long robe and with a golden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now--I can't hang about whining for… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
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Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have… — Anna Politkovskaya Copy Share Image
“Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hangs upon the cross! This is the greatest… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I slit my wrist to ease the pain, you look at me, and think Im insane, my eyes turn red, bleeding my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“You know, nothing is stronger than blood bonds. What else is the reason for the success of life insurance policies? Why bother… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“Celia sighed. “Her life may not have been her own, but her death was. She made a decision and saw it through.… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
It's been difficult for me to get my head around Diana's death or talk about it. After she died, things were difficult,… — Hasnat Khan Copy Share Image
For me, it's life or death doing plays: there's this perfectionist thing about me that it has to be brilliant - anything… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
Our words and our marches must be accompanied by action - and that includes meaningful progress on issues ranging from maternal mortality… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
Magic underlies the relationship between us, and the greater immensities of birth and death. Thus the experience of being in the presence… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
“Sink to the ground holding death's hand oh comrade if you are the father of great repose, if you are all you… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate...… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
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