People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works. — John Diamond Copy Share Image
“Answers to all the problems that there are, Except the love that kills, the death that lives.” — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
“There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that two and two make four is punished… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As sunlight is for flowers, and sustenance for the mortal shell, music is for the human soul.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Failure to make the tough but necessary choices means slow painful death. — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
“Being close to death, I knew that I wanted to live. I wanted to experience it all. With Jack.” — Jane Harvey-Berrick Copy Share Image
Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear… — Hildegard Knef Copy Share Image
I wonder why life has brought you my way to make me happy but now as to take you away to make… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
“ELVIS PRESLEY’S COLON is not on display in a glass case, but you can get a good sense of what it looked… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“An ‘Initiate’ is someone who has ‘crossed the boundary (or threshold).’ The greatest Initiates have crossed the boundary of death and have… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
I did Bored To Death with Jason [Schwartzman] and Zach Galifianakis and those guys. I mean, how lucky can you be that… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO COMPLAIN!!! Really? YOU THINK YOUR LIFE IS BAD?! Did you know:Every 30 seconds, an African child dies… — Jazzy Copy Share Image
The people, when they say 'Death to America!' - do you know what they are really saying? What they mean to say… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
“Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death. ” — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject. — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
“You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this. — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
“Contemplating our mortality may give us the courage to unhook our lives from the more gratuitous of society's expectations” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“That was the problem with grieving one child in a family with other children. In my despair over losing Riley, I’d lost… — Leslie A. Gordon Copy Share Image
“If Life flashes before your eyes just before you die…mine will be wearing a trench coat” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
“Because death is the only thing that could ever have kept him from you” — Ally Smith Copy Share Image
Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“Most people celebrate the continuity of their existence so passionately that you would swear they chose to exist.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When you have a death row case, you have to make 100 percent sure you have the right person. But these DAs… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
“If ever a face meant death, if looks could kill, we saw it at that moment.” — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“And now time is rushing towards them where they stand side by side with arms touching, immortality on their faces, night at… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.” — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.” — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
“In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Absence is worse than death. If you suddenly disappeared without a trace, it's like you had never lived — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
“Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image