“The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“... the first few minutes of a person's death are the most vitally important minutes of opportunity for a necromancer, [so] Cabal… — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
“There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“We all do don’t we? We are consumed with our own mortality. Some people eat right and exercise to preserve their lives,… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“ME’s bound to rule your sister’s death a suicide, Ms. Miller. I know how hard it is to accept—” Anger roaring in… — Colleen Thompson Copy Share Image
I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
It sounds morbid, but because my mother knew she was dying, she discussed with us her not being there, and it helped… — Suzy Nakamura Copy Share Image
“To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn’t bogged down in random trivial details… — M.B. Wilmot Copy Share Image
“Death row groupies mystify me. These women spend their lives visiting the condemned religiously, writing them daily, falling in love with them,… — Robert Blecker Copy Share Image
“To the police," Lily said [speaking of five murders], "these five brutal murders are less than coincidence. One of them told me,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I always heard 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger' growing up. How so very foolish. In fact, what doesn't kill you… — Jeremy Caldwell Copy Share Image
Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“After that there was silence for a while, only the sound of the shovel biting into the earth and the hissing splatter… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
“Time is what has stunted the vision of mankind and bound it to mortality. The past and the future have enslaved man… — Priya Kumar Copy Share Image
“Everything assumes a different intensity when you are feeling the pain of loss. Be prepared. A minor annoyance that you might once… — Elizabeth Berrien Copy Share Image
“... as we travel again between life and death, Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers, None better, none worse, unravel… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement.… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Do no harmful actions, do not become attached to the cycle of death and rebirth, show kindness, respect the old and have… — Dogen Copy Share Image
I was there,The blood,The ambulances, The screams,The Lights,The cops,The sirens,The people,Everything. You have passed away,makes me crying alot everytime I think about… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
Nurses are there when the last breath is taken and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is… — Christine Bell Copy Share Image
The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“All others are outside myself; I lock my door and bar them out The turmoil, tedium, gad-about. I lock my door upon… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come… — James Wan Copy Share Image
I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“Objects and Objectives To contemplate LEGO. Many colours. Many shapes. Many inventive and useful shapes. Plastic. A versatile and practical substance. Symbolic… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“O Death, old captain, it is time! let us lift anchor. This land tires us, O Death. Let us be under way!… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Bernard was to remember this moment for the rest of his life. As they drank from their water bottles he was struck… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very… — Justin Baldoni Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man with an excruciatingly painful condition wrote me and told me that his doctor said that the only cure for what… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image