There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Death has but few terrors for the crushed and broken spirit; but how heavy and icy is his hand when it grasps… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and… — David Chase Copy Share Image
A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
... our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands… — Orlando Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“I think you talk big,” said Pleasant. “I think you talk about death like it’s your friend. But if you really want… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“At the root of this new feeling was the realization that he was going to die--but not today. I'm going to die.… — Reece Hirsch Copy Share Image
Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be… — Guo Xiang Copy Share Image
The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the… — Phil Bredesen Copy Share Image
“Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The god of death, the wind, the underworld, the ever-burning entrance to hell, the knife-edge, poison, serpent, and fire - women are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If breakups are like deaths, then ex sightings are like seeing a ghost: you feel goose bumps, near loss of bladder control,… — Daria Snadowsky Copy Share Image
“You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I go to see films at the multiplex because they are not good films, and so I don't have to think about… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Time flies, knells call, life passes, so hear my prayer. “Birth is nothing but death begun, so hear my prayer. “Death is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What I must do is die now. I must accept the justice of death and the injustice of life. I have lived… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
“We are one against the ferocity and volatility of time. Of duty Of evil Of greed Of pain We are one despite… — Lorena Jelves Copy Share Image
As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?"… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
My poverty taught me a lot. If someone dies, I cannot cry as I have seen so much hardship and death. I… — Johnny Lever Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan in the US was not a particularly popular president, but after his death sectors of wealth and power created a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The death of the idealized versions of our parents, teachers, and mentors—a stage in the hero’s journey—is always scary because it means… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Pru curled up in the bay window and looked out at the city. People were going to the movies, parents were putting… — Rebecca Flowers Copy Share Image
“He who dreads death, dreads either an extinction of all sense, or dreads a different sort of sensation. If all sense is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“When the eternal God looked at my record and said, “Michael is found guilty, the penalty of his crimes is death and… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
There is a still point in eternity. There is a still point where all things intersect. There is a still point beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Fell from paradise immortal race Fell from heaven stars, fell grace Fell from love’s presence for beauty Buried with beauty be Fell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Didn’t dying in the end mean being separated from other humans, after all, from the sea of human gaits, gestures, noises, and… — Anuk Arudpragasam Copy Share Image
The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
