“your son has paid the soldier’s price: death. He only lived long enough to become a man, and as soon as he… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You see, we find comfort in telling ourselves that the world could not exist without us, that it exists only inasmuch as… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“As a physician, who has been deeply privileged to share the most profound moments of people's lives including their final moments, let… — Bernadine Healy Copy Share Image
Memory is identity…You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“He should've read the contract a little closer before he signed, but being moments from a painful and violent death had provided… — Andrea Laurence Copy Share Image
“The story has not ended, the fat lady has not sung. many more gods will die and others will be born. Life… — Fred Kranich Copy Share Image
“I've heard of more ways to die in this war than I knew there were corpses. I've heard there isn't a battle… — Cynthia Bass Copy Share Image
“His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone had thrown him… — Tekoa Manning Copy Share Image
Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
“But I am weary of this place, and sick to death of playing at philanthropy and progress. Of all varieties of mock-life,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Let sickness prostrate us, have we not seen hundreds of believers as happy in the weakness of disease as they would have… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Not that I’m crazy or anything, I just want some proof that death isn’t the end. Even if crazed zombies grabbed me… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was a blue-eyed, chubby-cheeked five-year-old when I joined my family on the picket line for the first time. My mom made… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe--at least I do not--that law has been rudely violated in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Love is the sweetest poison, yet it kills you slowly. Somehow you never get to your deathbed. It's a form of dying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He looked upon this verdant, blossoming spring, a spring Joanna would never see, he looked upon a field of brilliant blue flowers-… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
We must work to build a criminal-legal system that is deeply rooted in a love for humanity, which begins with ending the… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
“The indolent old man hopes that his death is still a long way off. But repentance and remorse belong to the eternal… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death.… — Plato Copy Share Image
“But for reasons she would never be able to articulate to anyone, herself included, she took a few steps more into the… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“And the king could find no sleep. Not then, not now, and still he waits to this day in a shell of… — C.M. Hayden Copy Share Image
“It has been reliably established that from 1933 to 1945 millions of innocent people were systematically slaughtered on command. Gas chambers were… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
“Just a few more minutes here, I suggest: life hates to leave, worried what it might miss. But Vernon, closer, is shaking… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
