Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the headline death and disaster atop the latest dispatch from Homestead. “Capital and labor have met once more on a bloody field,”… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other… — William Law Copy Share Image
“However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because he can't, since for… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels… — Brittney Griner Copy Share Image
We were very proud in the sense that we would never take any government handouts. My parents, God bless them, never took… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
“Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death… — David S.E. Zapanta Copy Share Image
The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
“In the heat of leadership, with the adrenaline pumping, it is easy to convince yourself that you are not subject to the… — Ronald A. Heifetz Copy Share Image
Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Thus I stretch out my arms to my Saviour, who, after being foretold for four thousand years, came on earth to die… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road where we… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“When we nearly die, then, we find that we are not alone and presumably have never been alone. We have someone or… — Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino Copy Share Image
“Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the… — Christopher Byford Copy Share Image
When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“What I find hilarious is that these people looking for ego death, who want to become so enlightened are usually those with… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I have reveled in my littleness and irresponsibility. It has relieved me of the harassing desire to live, I feel content to… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“In Beirut, death’s unremitting light shines bright for all to see, brighter than the Mediterranean sun, brighter than the night’s Russian missiles,… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. I have supposed,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis… — Thomas Heywood Copy Share Image
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to… — Nate Copy Share Image
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“We need to needlessly treat hundreds of people with a mild hypertension to prevent a single death. Since not all people with… — Dr. Robert A. Hitlin Copy Share Image
Discrimination, knowledge, non-delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control over the mind and senses, pleasure, pain, birth, death, fear, fearlessness; . — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge - Are boundless. Three things are needed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“When born (in the future lives) they are attached again to the body (and mind) as Atman, and become subject to lust… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Cyrano: The leaves--- Roxane: What color---Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall. Cyrano: Yes---they know how to die. A little way From… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
“I knew a girl, once, immortal like me-" "And she was with someone mortal?" said Alec. "What happened?" "He died," Magnus said.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“WE stowed the wheels, uncapped the sledge-runners, put on our sis, and took off -- down, north, onward, into that silent vastness… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image