“[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.” — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death. — Dorothy Norman 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
I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“when I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity of my city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have… — Charles Bukowski 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
“We forget that even worse choices than those have confronted us in the past—like sending billions of dollars of aid to Joseph… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I really have no idea where the darkness comes from. Other writers have said that there are two subjects worth writing about,… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“The Clown turned his powdered face to the mirror. "If to be fair is to be beautiful," he said, "who can compare… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“You need to surrender yourself to death before you ever begin, and accept your life as a state of grace, and then… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
“Looking down at someone you were, with total disapproval and denial, as a celebration. Celebrating the death of the last thing… — Sam Pink Copy Share Image
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism. — Irving Kristol 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
“If ever a face meant death, if looks could kill, we saw it at that moment.” — Bram Stoker 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
“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
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace. — Knut Hamsun 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
“Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.” — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. — A. C. Benson 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
“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
“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
“If Life flashes before your eyes just before you die…mine will be wearing a trench coat” — Josh Stern 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
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen. — Thierry Mugler Copy Share Image
“However weary he might be of life after three centuries of it, he was more weary of witnessing death.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
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