“There was not an inch of solid ground anywhere in the world for me to call my own. I didn't belong anywhere.… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Frankenstein! If thou wert… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“the strategic situation foreseen by Robert Heinlein in the death dust story was like “a duel in a vestibule with flamethrowers,” anticipating… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“Not all sacrifices involve death, child. As the Enapay used to say, the noblest sacrifice of all is to open you heart… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands… — Natalie Valdes Copy Share Image
“If we all reacted the same way, we'd be predictable, and there's always more than one way to view a situation. What's… — Motoko Kusanagi Copy Share Image
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Only very few people are born with awareness. Those are the people who die in awareness. If the death was conscious, then… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed,… — Kevin Richardson Copy Share Image
“Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even thought… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“No one ever comes back from the dead., no one ever enters the world without weeping; no one is ever asked when… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Live or die, but don't poison everything... Well, death's been here for a long time -- it has a hell of a… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“She turned and walked down the musty, dimly-lighted corridor, along a strip of carpeting that still clung together only out of sheer… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Mysterious death, yes, you suspected something even then, I knew it!” With a wave of his hand, he overrode her hasty attempt… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“What is this?! I couldn't die back when I would've been glad to die anywhere, anytime, but now that dying would take… — Yukako Kabei Copy Share Image
“The cruciform does not like pain. Nor do I but, like the cruciform, I am willing to use it to serve my… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we… — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
“I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Death breached the silence first. 'Mortals are always calling for me,' he said, 'Especially mortals whose suffering is very great, and especially… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
“In 2011, Forbes estimated that during the previous eight years, a Chinese billionaire had died of unnatural causes every 40 days, on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pain of our country's maternal mortality crisis is felt harshly in New Jersey, disproportionately hurting Black women and devastating too many… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the difference between life and death.… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
“These people no doubt became more common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and judging from La Fontaine, those who tried to… — Philippe Ariès Copy Share Image
You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: Not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
