Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
To be certain, with each thoughtless individual step toward a mortal epilogue, so to do we shear away, with reckless abandon, another… — L Vincent Majestic Copy Share Image
“The most salacious stories—bones ground in a metal blender or torture-spike eye caps—had the power to disrupt people’s polite complacency about death.… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It… — Terence Mckenna Copy Share Image
I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it’s not the same thing. Fear isn’t the desire to avoid… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
When I first read 'At Freddie's', I was struggling with my own writing, particularly with how to write about a sad subject… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
“I was created, then the Society ordered the destruction of all mods. The day after I was born, the date of my… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
“Until death," Jem replied gently. "Those are the words of the oath. 'Until aught but death part thee and me.' Someday, Will,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“WE ARE TO PLAY THE GAME OF DEATH E are to play the game of death to-night, my bride and I. The… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“What rending pains were close at hand! Death! and what a death! worse than any other that is to be named! Water,… — Harriet Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
If God permitted divorce rather than death as a merciful concession to man's sinfulness, why would He not also permit remarriage, since… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“There are worse things than being robbed..." I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it has not… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I see no sense in fearing anything. We will die one day, no matter what happens we've the choice to choose love… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled… — Sue Arnold Copy Share Image
What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Make their exits as gentle and loving as possible...Tell them how good it will be, even if you don't believe it yourself.… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
“She wondered If I had woken up, would I have smelled his sadness, his desperation, and his detachment? His death, her breath.… — Rachel Thompson Copy Share Image
She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
“I had never been so close to death before. For a long time, as I lay there trying to clear my mind,… — Andre Brink Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between driving and texting. When your driving your eyes have to be open and on the road watching the… — Jonathan Anthony Burkett Copy Share Image
We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
I don't compare life to anything. Life can't be defined or compared, I just know that it dresses itself as a murderer… — Griselda Salazar Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's… — Francesca Gregorini Copy Share Image
