Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For me, I am constantly forcing myself to evolve, because, I think, to stagnate creatively - there's a certain death that happens… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
“I am old enough to be married twice. I am old enough to be bedded without tenderness or consideration. I am old… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“There were lives in those books, and deaths. Families and friends and lovers and enemies. Joy and despair, jealousy, envy, madness, and… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“In studying the Holocaust together, we have plumbed the depths of the abyss that humanity is capable of, but not because of… — Matthew A. Rozell Copy Share Image
Cancer is, in general, an increasingly important topic, in part because we've gotten so good at preventing other forms of death that… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“I might be alive now, but I’d experienced what I thought was my final, one-and-only permanent death. That hadn’t been fun, that… — B.V. Larson Copy Share Image
“It's not the dead even. They're gone. Nothing you can do about that. It's what's left behind - the echo. These woods… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
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“Those who are not being dragged to their deaths cannot understand how the heart grows hard and sharp, until it is a… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the… — Eric Ladin Copy Share Image
“Or maybe he thought the place he was leaving her was really worse than death. Didn’t I want to kill Peeta with… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“The gospel was summarized in the verses above. It is the incarnation, sinless life, substitutionary death, burial, bodily resurrection, ascension, and eternal… — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“If I really cared about Matt, I wouldn’t want him to be unhappy. And I was fairly sure that mourning the untimely… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
“Yael wanted to be like the Valkyrie maidens in the old Norse lore. Winged women who rode to war on the backs… — Ryan Graudin Copy Share Image
There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
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The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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“Yes, Death brings us again to our friends. They are waiting for us, and we shall not long delay. They have gone… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Here again, the difference between the effective and the virtual, between mourning and its possibility, seems fragile and porous. The anguished apprehension… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
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A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying.… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying;… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
The study of everything that stands connected with the death of Christ, whether it be in the types of the ceremonial law,… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
My ancestors had to keep their customs secret for fear of death or persecution, so it's common to be secretive and discreet… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
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People don't always recognize how serious it can be, that there can be some serious complications from the flu and even death.… — Sarah Chalke Copy Share Image
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