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Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not...… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Into the wind we vary, Our hearts free of youth, Mold me into envy, If I can’t have your muse; Under toe,… — Adrianna Stepiano Copy Share Image
“Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people… — Refaat Alareer Copy Share Image
“They had met one another, at first not very often, throughout the heady autumn of the first London air raids. Never had… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
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In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
“The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands… — a.b. shepherd Copy Share Image
The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic… — Gary Null Copy Share Image
“I leave you gifts of Fate most secret; find no other's Fate, For if you do, no grave is deep enough for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You look as if you're planning my untimely death." [...] "You have a problem though—I'm your top assassin by far, and I… — Ocotillo Copy Share Image
Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
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“Time hangs suspended, and yet it's about to end. Death should be a seduction, not a rape. Given one more minute he… — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
“I don’t know anything different about death than I ever have, but I feel differently. I inhabit this difference in feeling- or… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“The crisis is a period in which a diseased social, economic, and political body or system cannot live on as before and… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard God was starving? I have seen God's amazing that God is dying of hunger starve himself to death… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
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“When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave. I went… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Emma dropped the letter. The first thing she felt was a sinking in her stomach and a trembling in her knees; then,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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“If those birds hadn't been so stupid, so incapable of learning that human beings were dangerous, the first settlers would almost certainly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image