“To say that a sentient being is not harmed by death denies that the being has the very interest that sentience serves… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The exhilaration of battle was agreeable to him, but the sight of the dead, with their clay faces, blank eyes, and stiff… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“On the coming of evening, I return to my house and enter my study; and at the door I take off the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Boy to his dying grampa: "I am a century wide. I think that I have my literal age but am surrounded in… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I like to joke that you usually write more books before death than after death, so that's why I'm doing it. But… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims--these are lucky… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Seven half-bloods shall answer the call To storm or fire the world must fall An oath to keep with a final breath… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Well, that was life. Gladness and pain...hope and fear...and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to let the… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The goddess is not an out-there force among the far stars or beyond death, but is here and now and living. In… — Diane Stein Copy Share Image
Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification,… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
“Here's a salute to a long good life: goodness that outlives the grave. love that outlasts the final breath. May you live… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Every bit of pain and joy you have ever known lifts you up, and every moment you have lived comes together, and… — Christy Ann Conlin Copy Share Image
Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Pain and grief have been kept buried for ages, bred in secrecy and shame, wrapped by an ongoing conspiracy of smiles and… — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
“Some people believe football (soccer) is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you… — Bill Shankly Copy Share Image
“Children accept the conditions they are born into, and, to a degree, I was getting used to the bombings, fires, and death… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Outside the wind had picked up a little. Isaac sheltered his prize and walked quickly up the little alley that adjoined The… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, 'This is boring. I want… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“ July 14, 1861 Camp Clark, Washington My very dear Sarah: The indications are very strong that we shall move in a… — Sullivan Ballou Copy Share Image
“What scared Stanley the most about dying wasn't his actual death. He figured he could handle the pain. It wouldn't be much… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
“Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste… — William Empson Copy Share Image
“An engaging discussion upon the nature of the soul, its defining qualities, the possibility it manifests a specific shape, the likelihood of… — Stephen Wright Copy Share Image
“Indulging their every whim and desire, people these days routinely eat and drink to excess and live indiscriminately without restraint or discipline.… — Ilza Veith Copy Share Image
She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Do I miss him? Of course I do. Every day. His death was devastating, he was just 51. But you know, in… — Peter Kay Copy Share Image
“My father was a Catholic, a coal miner in the Big Pit. My mother a Jew. A charwoman, when she could find… — Patrick Reinken Copy Share Image
“In my hands is power. The power to hear or to destroy. To grant life or to cause death. I revere this… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
When I perform, I always opt for communication with God, and in pursuit of communicating with God, you can enter some very… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“He had recorded a message to be played upon his death. He had told no one—except Teela, his shopping companion and health… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
When you're a young person, you are biologically driven to believe you are immortal, and that's why you engage in all kinds… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
