The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“Jeanne’s sisters thought nothing of themselves… Helen stayed up late in Brookline, baking. Lemon squares, and brownies, pecan bars, apple cake, sandy… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“I liked holding David’s hand, though. That part-the snow dampening my face, letting my tears mix without anyone seeing, his fingers snug… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
I just love the fact that that's the way life is. When something horrible happens, you do find yourself laughing in weird… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death,… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
“Others, I am not the first, Have willed more mischief than they durst: If in the breathless night I too Shiver now,… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
I look at my career as a body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age records. I'm in Eagles of… — Josh Homme Copy Share Image
Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“He looked back at the stairs. The man he had stabbed wasn’t moving. His dark skin had taken on the gray pallor… — Andrew Warren Copy Share Image
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“Since the main task of human life is to become heroic and transcend death, every culture must provide its members with an… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“Rynn Cormel had run the world during the Turn, his living charisma somehow crossing the boundaries of death to give his undead… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
If the daylight dies the shadows fall all over me. Then death, you'll have your way. Scorn the torment in moonlight's shadow… — Children Of Bodom Copy Share Image
“every direction. Those poor, unfortunate souls who didn’t die instantly suddenly found themselves blinded and burning and unable to move. Some would… — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“I KNOW that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
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“Morbidity and Mortality Rounds Forgive me, body before me, for this. Forgive me for my bumbling hands, unschooled in how to touch:… — Rafael Campo Copy Share Image
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“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
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
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
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... 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
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