“My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
“No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why?… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“...But this number, like all the others, must be seen not as 5.7 million, which is an abstraction few of us can… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
“Moloka'i. It was not a name spoken lightly in these islands. Sometimes it was called “Moloka'i of the potent prayers,” known for… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
“We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to… — Sarah Winter Copy Share Image
“They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Without God, life would end at the grave and our mortal experiences would have no purpose. Growth and progress would be temporary,… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
For an acrobat, the acting concepts of 'risk', 'a life or death situation' and 'trusting your partner' are visceral. If an actor… — Jeff Raz Copy Share Image
“Happy endings? The only ending life allows us is death, and that’s rarely happy. So, until my happy death, I have to… — Stephen Mosley Copy Share Image
The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named… — Dan Farmer Copy Share Image
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death.… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“He handed me something done up in paper. 'Your mask,' he said. 'Don't put it on until we get past the city-limits.'… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Not only are mortals rotten, the very atmosphere in which we live is materially and physically rotten, swarming with maggots, with obscene… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Let me sleep," he said, and shut the door; it clicked in her face and she felt animal terror - this was… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
Of death, my father has always said that the best conditions are the ones in which you have plenty of time to… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“The reins of our life are in the hands of the future. Man always lives today in the hope of tomorrow. And… — Osho Copy Share Image
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
“I hear civilians saying we’re all heroes, heard someone… was it Arthur Godfrey on Armed Forces Radio? I can’t recall, but it’s… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Our parents had to drive us to the gig, or even go in with us because of the liquor laws. The owners… — Dexter Romweber Copy Share Image
“The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“What remains of the dying population of Cambodia? One large photograph of an American actress holding an Asian child in her arms.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically,… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“The universe is a pointless, self running machine, and we are insignificant by-products, whom death will tuck back into oblivion, with or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“It is [Simon] Wessely’s often-unconcealed “derision” directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on… — Michael Hanlon Copy Share Image
“In the words of C. Joybell C., we’re all stars that think they’re dying until we realize we’re collapsing into supernovas –… — Thought Catalog Copy Share Image
Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the… — Shane Smith Copy Share Image
That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image