“From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque.… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Once, though, I heard Rita say to Cora that she wouldn't debase herself like that. Nobody asking you, Cora said. Anyways, what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead.… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor - just such tears,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Let death do what it can, there is just one thing it cannot destroy, and that is life. Never in itself, only… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“At the Hospital, everyone thinks about dying.And I'd never been much for romanticizing death-especially not suicide. I'd always been a fan of… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
And then the dear Lord will take us to the new earth, surrounded by the new Heaven, and the holy New Jerusalem… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
“I wanted to listen to him, but I did not want to answer now. That strange responsibility we feel towards others when… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“A Man's suicide is the ultimate violence he can fling against the granite circumstance he could not vanquish. Its a lonely and… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Quote #2 I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst,… — Antoine de Saint Exupéry Copy Share Image
I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
“We are all finite beings. We are all going to die. But the real question is, before we die, can we live… — Jarem Sawatsky Copy Share Image
“There’s a psychological mechanism, I’ve come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Felt my heartbeat falter, hesitate, then stumble awkwardly forward, tripping on the next beat, then the next, faster and faster until each… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Only through the death experience could man fully understand his life experience. Only through the realization that his days on earth were… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I do have commitment phobia, which I think is underlied by death anxiety. I feel that if you are in a relationship,… — Alex Karpovsky Copy Share Image
Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The dank smell of death in that alleyway haunted her senses, her memories. She kept thinking this was the end—this was what… — Lauren Dawes Copy Share Image
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“My soul is so lonely, but I'm unwilling to describe that sort of loneliness for you, because I can't divulge the depth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I would rather hide in desolation and poverty, whether it be in the Baseborn Quarters or the Tenantless, than be the cause… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
You're immortal, aren't you, until you get a little peek over the precipice. The thought of death...You're not supposed to start pondering… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Death appears as the harsh victory of the law of our ancestors of the dimension of our becoming. It is a fact… — Frere Dupont Copy Share Image
“Moreover, most faiths turned death into the main source of meaning in life. Try to imagine Islam, Christianity or the ancient Egyptian… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Ready yourselves!' Mullone heard himself say, which was strange, he thought, for he knew his men were prepared. A great cry came… — David Cook Copy Share Image
“There was something twisting in his gut that he wanted to deny and couldn't. It was like a knife in him that… — Hazel B. West Copy Share Image
“Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels… — Scott Nicholson Copy Share Image
Fallen dried leaves from a willow tree Ive watched them playing along with the wind.Circling in front of me..Feels like Im out… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If we could understand and love the infinity of agonies which languish around us, all the lives which are hidden deaths, we… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
