“Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations. Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies like a snowflake falling on water. Below us, some… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“The essential elements of a person come to light only when we must regard him as lost to us, when everything he… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever. I envied those… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Gregori was as still as a statue, his face a blank mask, his silver eyes as empty as death, yet Shea gave… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“They meet again at dinner--again, next day-- again, for many days in succession. Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I know now that everything after the accident was merely a tactic to indulge in escapism and self-delusion. When you are hit… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
“There are two missions we are obligated to carry out during our life journey. The first, is to seek Truth throughout our… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Death is certain. Life is uncertain. Be AWARE. Be good. Be Kind Hearted. Be Grateful. Be Compassionate. Be Loving. Be Gentle. Be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We’re beings toward death, we’re featherless, two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“And death doesn't wait for you when your rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when your exhausted and hungry and… — Lili St. Crow Copy Share Image
“How long does a building stand before it falls? How long does a contract last? How long will brothers share the inheritance… — David Ferry Copy Share Image
“The stillest thing in the world is the corpse of someone you loved. A hunk of cold granite seems more alive than… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I represented a man on death row whose lawyers had spent all of eight hours looking into his claim of innocence. I… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“The anniversary date of a loved one's death is particularly significant. You will have done something you thought was impossible a few… — Bob Diets Copy Share Image
We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Why is it that those who believe don’t fear death? To be absent from the body is to be present with the… — Slona North Copy Share Image
And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well The child cries out when From the right… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Such growth will move humans into ever-higher energy states, ultimately transforming our bodies into spiritual form and uniting this dimension of existence… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death...to separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“what death is, and the fact that, if a man looks at it in itself, and by the abstractive power of reflection… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Die, die we all pass away, But don't wear a frown coz it's really okay, And you might try to hide, And… — Danny Elfman - The Corpse Bride Copy Share Image
I believe if I should die, And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie Cold, dead, and dumb to all the… — Mary Ashley Townsend Copy Share Image
“It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
When I heard the death of Brittany I was in a state of shock and filled with sadness. She was a sweet,… — Stacey Dash Copy Share Image
Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own… — Ita Buttrose Copy Share Image
God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“When you lose a friend [in battle] you have an overpowering desire to go back home and yell in everybody's ear, "This… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
“You are Fire! Don’t believe these mere mortals. They want to put you on a pedestal and sing paeans to you; later… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image