The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible. — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“The most profound sentence ever written, Temple said with enthusiasm, is the sentence at the end of the zoology. Reproduction is the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Death should not be seen as the end but as a very effective way to cut down expenses. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Something, someone, some spirit was pursuing all of us across the desert of life and was bound to catch us before we… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
One of the heart touching statement I do say to my loved ones; shed all the tears you wish to shed while… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Blue screen of death: she'd crashed his system. Oh, well. Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“In all things I saw the passion of life for growth and greatness, the drama of everlasting creation. I came to think… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky That would be like the splendour of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Life was a strange mix of twists and turns, where incomprehensible loss often led to paths of unimaginable joy.” — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“This was what real grief felt like—she had never truly felt it before. All the times she had been sad, all the… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
“We stand on the edge of the abyss, across whose unknowable face we paint meaning so as not to see into it.… — Ovadya ben Malka Copy Share Image
How can I begin to tell you how much I miss you without using those three common words that can't even start… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder… — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me. It's the "Braveheart" moment, the stuff Joseph Campbell… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
“My father was a doctor,' she says, 'a very kind man. He died in the early '70s, relatively young.' She taps the… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain,… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“I don't wanna be the joker who makes eyes full of tears in the end” — Ags Orachimaruu Copy Share Image
I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God is infinitely more honored by the sacrifices of death than by those of life; by the latter we honor Him as… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“She was handed more personality than other mortals, and chemically fertilized in a glasshouse - now her bionic strength allows her to… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“It was then I truly realised the whale is no more a fish than I am. So much blood. This was not… — Carol Birch Copy Share Image
Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence,… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image