“Do you have to sound so damned indifferent to it all? Here we are talking about how we're likely to be dead… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“On Midsummer Eve, when the bonfires are lighted on every hill in honour of St. John, the fairies are at their gayest,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
A kid is always locked down inside their family. In the film, I felt like talking about loss and death, which we've… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
“My body was still too numb to feel the crushing waves pound me, and I truly felt a freedom and peace, as… — Chanda Hahn Copy Share Image
“Yes, she told us we’d see her in everything—the sunbeams, the shadows, the flowers, the rain. She said death doesn’t kill us,… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Doggone, I never thought I’d lose my mind.” I was startled at the time to realize this – that he had thought… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
“Without conscious rituals of loss and renewal, individuals and societies lose the capacity to experience the sorrows and joy that are essential… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
We start with an economic approach. We look at what are the greatest causes of death in the developing world, and what… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
“Now add in deaths from old age and disease and expand that to a global scale. Please imagine the sanitary conditions in… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
“keep in mind that therapy is a deep and comprehensive exploration into the course and meaning of one’s life; given the centrality… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
As a boy I stood at the doorway of our hiding place in Budapest and watched Russian troops fight house by house… — Frank Lowy Copy Share Image
Heaven comes to people - and their loved ones - when they are dying. It is not uncommon for angels to appear… — Gary Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“Around three a.m. he feels a presence in the room. He sees, for the pulse of a moment, a figure at the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Yet, if the world were bettered by My death or story left untold, I would condemn myself to die For misdemeanours manifold:… — Francois Villon Copy Share Image
“Human beings have freedom toward death and the right to death, in the sense of sacrifice, but only when the good sought… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“One cannot change his current life span but one can change his next life form. The ticket can be changed but death… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“She meant absolutely nothing to me. Realizing, suddenly, after so many years, that whatever happens i shall never see her again, I… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“You are living as if destined to live for ever; your own frailty never occurs to you; you don’t notice how much… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Great joys,why do they bring us sadness? Because there remains from these excesses only a feeling of irrevocable loss and desertion which… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Since this was a formal undead gathering, there would be food—all kinds—drinks, dancing, and festivities, while those in power pondered whether or… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“He hesitated. 'Serpine used my wife and child as a weapon against me. In order to do so, he had to kill… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“When death becomes an escape, when it becomes attractive, the purpose of life is fulfilled. To teach one it's futility, it's worthlessness,… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
“At my dying breath i'll do my best to tell you: "Walk on" Whether it be the toughest fight or darkest night;… — Cole Edward Willis Copy Share Image
There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of… — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
