Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“She wondered If I had woken up, would I have smelled his sadness, his desperation, and his detachment? His death, her breath.… — Rachel Thompson Copy Share Image
“Make their exits as gentle and loving as possible...Tell them how good it will be, even if you don't believe it yourself.… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled… — Sue Arnold Copy Share Image
What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
If God permitted divorce rather than death as a merciful concession to man's sinfulness, why would He not also permit remarriage, since… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“What rending pains were close at hand! Death! and what a death! worse than any other that is to be named! Water,… — Harriet Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it has not… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“There are worse things than being robbed..." I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“But a part of me will never be free And the part that's free will never be me But a thing of… — Steve Kilbey Copy Share Image
“P198 Describe John Moore’s brother’s death: but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essentially the result… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
“If you love God, surrender to God, you can live in the moment, free of anxiety. Without God? You look ahead and… — Suzanne Morrison Copy Share Image
Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever… — Caterina Sforza Copy Share Image
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
The American horror movies are more moralistic, they have not only good characters, but characters where the ultimate danger is death. What… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
“It is no less silly to trouble yourself about death than you do about gravitation. Can you realize that death, which you… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed.… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The Mayflower sped across the white-tipped waves once the voyage was under way, and the passengers were quickly afflicted with seasickness. The… — Tony Williams Copy Share Image
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was four. And she was re-diagnosed when I was seven or eight, and… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I took one long last look at her before disappearing into the Rainbow Forest where another Master was calling me Home. “I… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
Osama Bin Laden Jokes Spread Faster Than The News Of His Death ... Here Are SomePosted by123Labels: Internet Catch, Joke, Time pass… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“time isn’t something you can spread out like butter or jam, and death isn’t going to hang around and wait for you… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
“Without warning a lady appeared. She came from the direction of Friday-street, for she had just been with Mr. Newbolt. She strode… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“XXXVII. The dying need but little, dear, — A glass of water's all, A flower's unobtrusive face To punctuate the wall, A… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The only way to find out if you're immortal is to make it to the end of time and look around to… — John Patrick Lowrie Copy Share Image
We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone... So, I think that's part of the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
To be certain, with each thoughtless individual step toward a mortal epilogue, so to do we shear away, with reckless abandon, another… — L Vincent Majestic Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
