“Casy said solemnly, "This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“Biblical eschatology fundamentally challenges the "official" scientific idea that the universe will end in a violent heat death, and instead that the… — David D. Flowers Copy Share Image
“If the U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, they cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
“Older Scout: [narrating] Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Maana halisi ya falsafa ya 'Nitakuwa tayari kufungwa kwa ajili ya matatizo ya watu', au Falsafa ya Kufungwa, ni uvutano mkubwa uliopo… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
My mother taught me all I need to know in dealing with life challenges but she is unable to eplained to me… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
“the American public doesn’t mourn contractor deaths the way we do the deaths of our soldiers. We rarely even hear about them.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
“Dolphins, I learned from J. Worden of the Harvard Child Bereavement Study at Massachusetts General Hospital, had been observed refusing to eat… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My friends ask Allah for such death. When u depart, Allah is happy. Let it not be a death where it is… — Kumar Destiny Tariq Jameel Copy Share Image
Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“In actual fact, conventions are the death of real tradition as they are of all real life. They are parasites which attach… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“It is, I concluded, a side effect of this kind of food, one that's handed down from one generation to another, often… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If… — Ray Toro Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a death wish. I’m just confused and trying to sort stuff out, trying to find a point to all… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I… — Mamie Till Copy Share Image
“Looking at herself in the mirror, she never forgot that death was hovering behind that face. Faint yet tenacious, like black writing… — Han Kang Copy Share Image
“ You're probably wondering why there's never any good news. I mean, I've been doing this job a few months now. I've… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“How curious it was, [...], that we humans had taken millions of year to crawl up out of the swamps and yet,… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“ “The Black Death announces itself by the appearance of foul, egg-sized swellings that erupt on the bodies of its victims, followed… — Fiona Paul Copy Share Image
Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces,… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
“It was a fine summer morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man *would* have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“Reflect on the “I” which can grasp all this. If the “I’ can grasp the idea of the universe and its laws,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In Europe, what seems to bond toads and toadstools strongly is their shared role as potentially toxic "agents of death", and their… — Adrian Morgan Copy Share Image
I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Fear envelops bones like new skin, envelops blood with night’s skin, the earth moves beneath the soles of the feet - it… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
It will become a pity when you fail to carry out your responsibility as a mortal human being, that Mr. pity can… — My Copy Share Image
“Hazel Grace, like so many children before you—and I say this with great affection—you spent your Wish hastily, with little care for… — John Green Copy Share Image
Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
“Fly (poem from the book Blue Bridge) Delicate, / butterfly winged, / we vainly push against the sky, / each trying to… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image