“When a pathogen leaps from some nonhuman animal into a person, and succeeds there in establishing itself as an infectious presence, sometimes… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the… — Alan D. Eames Copy Share Image
“Granted that I know little of my real self, still, I am the best evidence for myself. And though, when I have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to… — JRR Tolkien Copy Share Image
“You are born in a human form, and you find joy in it. Yet there are ten thousand other forms endlessly transforming… — Arnold Mindell Copy Share Image
“You will not even die in battle. No warrior will taste your blood. No one alive will take your life. You will… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But to dwell prematurely on the sadness of one’s death to others, Uncle Kostia, is like asking for money in advance. It’s… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
“Underneath all this beauty and nature, there’s death and decay,” Bernatto said. “Behind peace, there is war, and blood, and sacrifice. Always.” — Andrew Warren Copy Share Image
One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“Terror came. I would fall into a slumber of days, and getting up would go on with the same sad dreams. I… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Legend has it that while drinking wine in a boat on the river, [8th century Chinese poet Li Po] tried to grab… — Matthew White Copy Share Image
“God’s intention is not to let death have its way with us. If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“. As it says in Ecclesiastes there is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and… — Melanie Jackson Copy Share Image
We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
When the red wrath perisheth, when the dulled swords fail, These three who have walked with Death these shall prevail. Hell bade… — Theodosia Garrison Copy Share Image
“One day, with the help of science, death will come to Death as well! Killer will be killed and we will shout:… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the universe and nearly… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Each Day, I change, Leave behind the man I was. Driven, Determined, Only to be, A better man, Than I was yesterday.… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The flesh is what traps us, because no one has ever chosen his or her body to live in, has he? It's… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
“Most of these university types are total phonies. They’re scared to death somebody’s gonna find they don’t know something. They all read… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If I shut my eyes it returns: the evocation of a whole wood, a whole world of wood-darkness and flowers and birds… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“I've seen enough death." A single angel rose in the darkness from the circle they'd formed around the Qayom Malak . "If… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
“My Sadness is Deeper than Yours My sadness is deeper than yours. My interior life is richer than yours. I am more… — John Tottenham Copy Share Image
I wanted to preserve the feeling of remembering her just months after her death - the raw immediacy of it, so the… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. The worst vaccine of… — Archie Kalokerinos Copy Share Image
“Why do mortals think that suffering is a coin with which they can buy justice or salvation? ... life is a steal… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
“Fate is the cruelest of masters, taking Life when it pleases or at random, handing Rigged decks to whom it pleases, cheating… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
The mind is totally attached to Maya; the mortal has forgotten his fear of old age and death. Gazing upon his family,… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
“Almost worse than the sorrow of missing her was the fact that Mom's death had revealed everything to be meaningless. So much… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“When you start dreaming- what’s there to boast? Life may treat you like a living ghost Brokenness haunts you until you perish… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I don't think there is life beyond death. I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
No matter what age we are, regress to a certain youthfulness with people we've known our whole lives, especially our parents. And… — Fred Van Lente Copy Share Image
I've never given much thought to how I would die. But dying in the place of someone I love seems like a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image