SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“No sense of satisfaction, but my uncle’s death had taught me that revenge is far less sweet than it promises to be.… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Gage is waiting on the makeshift bed when she enters the room she’s been sleeping in. The small lantern in the corner… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without the recognition of death; we were too… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
If we were not passionately inclined to money or to vainglory, then we would not fear death or poverty. We would not… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“many is the time the poor fellows, just buttoning the necks of their clean frocks, are startled by the cry of "There… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
“Who has not seen a frail, clinging-vine type of woman, who upon the death of her husband strainghtens up and becomes an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I die a hundred deaths each day. I die when I see hungry people. Or people who're sad. I die when I… — Rekha Copy Share Image
“As death approaches me, I regret this most, Pilgrim--aside from my loss of you. I regret that I blamed, so often, others--for… — Findley Timothy Copy Share Image
Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“Those who romanticize war often like to think of it, at least in areas of mortal peril, as nothing but “guts and… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“Living near the cross of Calvary thou mayst think of death with pleasure, and welcome it when it comes with intense delight.… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A room in Holmhurst was the last thing she'd come to - better to lie down in the wood under the beech… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“Someone says we beign to die the minute we're born. Death is a part of life. Who knows why the Creator thins… — Jim Northup Copy Share Image
“Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain. not shoes but a place to walk.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
“Another site of Leftist struggle [other than Detroit] that has parallels to New Orleans: Palestine. From the central role of displacement to… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
We look at death from the selfish side, like: "That guy died. Oh, it's so sad." Why is it sad? He's away… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don't know what they're talking about. I was planning for how… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“There shall be no more death, Because we have already seen all that, Its old and we are tired of it, And… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“He needs to learn there are consequences to his poor decisions." "And if the consequence is death, Jillian? What lesson is there… — Nancy S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
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