“Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will—but only for a brief, little while—” — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
“They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Barbarism usually produces swift death. Cruelty is the mark of a civilized human.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“There are, aren't there, only three things that we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“And if you don’t think I can hold my own against all those eighteenth-century mortals you were out tagging, then you’re a… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“Death! mysterious, ill-visaged friend of weak humanity! Why alone of all mortals have you cast me from your sheltering fold? Oh, for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I could only liken it to the strength of a wheat stalk, which when struck by a storm, bends to the ground,… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has lost a love to death can tell you about that fall. You wake from a hard-won sleep and be… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“Here am I, a little animal called a man--a bit of vitalized matter, one hundred and sixty-five pounds of meat and blood,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Death, I now see, may not come when I am 85 and weary, or after I have solved all my problems or… — Joyce Wadler Copy Share Image
Man One Day Your People With You , Man One Day Your People Gone — Deezy Da Dreadhead Copy Share Image
I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
