As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Gabriel,’ said Jerott firmly, ‘is now at Birgu, Malta, engaged in a life-and-death struggle for the Grand Mastership of the Order of… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
“A glorious death would be in my final breath to take before I die, to hear one final time on my belovèd's… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Words cause life, words cause death. Words cause sorrow but they also cause happiness. They can be used to give darkness and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5… — Mark Lawson Copy Share Image
“And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I… — John Green Copy Share Image
The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I understand people who say, 'There is no Queen without Freddie. Just leave it be.' Because that's what we felt, following his… — Roger Taylor Copy Share Image
Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
“Is there anything you want to do before we put our heads in plastic boxes for two days?' I thought about this… — Tom Francis Copy Share Image
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“They are such thin things, these lives of ours; cheap got, cheap lost, mere flickers against the ever dark, brief shadows on… — James Bradley Copy Share Image
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can't just think 'I'm going to die anyway', because that's what's stopping… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“The cross of Jesus is the fulcrum of the scriptures. The saving work of Jesus is His death. He is our Savior… — Bryan Wolfmueller Copy Share Image
“Men’s bodies litter my family history. The pain of the women they left behind pulls them from the beyond, makes them appear… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Not so clever, are you, Koja? No one will have you to visit and you are covered in scabs. You are even… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“TIME OUT Every single time shit happens in history everyone runs for cover to a church or an underground bunker fearing death… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around… — Natalie Kusz Copy Share Image
“Lord, we know that you will come again in glory to raise the living and the dead. Resurrect us now from the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life,… — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
“The day that I left my home, I had prayed that my children would forget me. I wanted to spare them the… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
“From Iolcus the sea was first challenged, when the untried Argo scorned the shore and brought together nations that before were strangers;… — Lucan Copy Share Image
There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Do you think, Victor," said he, "that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“..with an intensity that sent every instinct in my body screaming that death was here, that it was about to jump down… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Death's power is limited -- It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble… — Donna VanLiere Copy Share Image
“No matter how much I love you, I can't become you and you can't be me. Until death, we will remain as… — Eda Yuuri Copy Share Image
“My body is a political battlefield. It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“The Witch is the sacred Yew Tree, never dying, always shedding her skin like the serpent so she may ever live on… — Sarah A. Lawless Copy Share Image
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
“The universal hero myth always refers to a powerful man or god-man who vanquishes evil in the form of drag- ons, serpents,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
