Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
“Rev. [Martin Luther] King continued, chanting, singing his prophetic litany. We were one people, indivisible in the sight of God, responsible to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Flowers remind me of the beauty and brevity of life. They teach patience as you await some to bloom, enhancing their beauty.… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
“I have lived a big life. For that I am grateful. But as one disengages from it and grows more reflective and… — David Paul Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“She'd been conceived as a goddess of justice. But this wasn't just. It wasn't right. And her husband's wrongful death would not… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Kreon: here are Kreon's verbs for today Adjudicate Legislate Scandalize Capitalize here are Kreon's nouns Men Reason Treason Death Ship of State… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“The four stages of acceptance: 1. This is worthless nonsense. 2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view. 3. This… — J.B.S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“The more things improve the more pessimistic we become. Violence-related deaths at the nation’s schools dropped to a record low during the… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the… — Richard Bachman Copy Share Image
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“You fall into thought while staring at the green foliage back here—so much damn green that it envelops you in its cruddy… — Brian Alan Ellis Copy Share Image
You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“PRAYER OF COMMUNION We who are about to partake of each other, shall walk past all amorous sickness and deaths, for we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was conscious of a man put… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as… — albert camus Copy Share Image
If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
“There are humans, and there are ghosts. Vampires are just in a different state of transition. Not part of the human world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When passion turns to paralysis, when our bodies stop listening to our brains, when a fatal disease sucks our insides out, will… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
When I was about 12, I came home from middle school and told my parents I wanted to be an actor. My… — Richard Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Ripping a piece of glass from my chest, I yelled, “Whoever set off that motherfucking bomb is either buying me a new… — Anne Malcom Copy Share Image
“Why would you ever choose to die?’ ‘Because a life with no end loses meaning. Death defines life. One day, I hope… — M.J. Hearle Copy Share Image
“ I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are… — Barbara Stocking Copy Share Image
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that… — Dorian Cox Copy Share Image
Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
The worst feeling in the world hands down is hopelessness, although it is not the only bad feeling. Other bad feelings include… — Matt Frisch Copy Share Image
“The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someone’s hand in yours and proceeding to squeeze it tightly, hurting… — Weston Locher Copy Share Image
“As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image