Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Death’s precipice, whether first glimpsed from afar or discovered with the next step, was ever a surprise. A promise of the sudden… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by… — Charles Bowers Copy Share Image
“> ...all I could think was what hell it is for the survivors when death slams into life without warning and smashes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She had a brief affair with a novelist, W. L. River, whose Death of a Young Man had been published several years… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
“You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said. "And it's the survivors who maintain the most light… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Death. I thought it would be gardens, perhaps. Beautiful countryside with cool streams. It's only blackness. Nervous and dark. There is no… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional… — Rai Aren Copy Share Image
When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on.… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I listen to the Beatles all the time - in my car, at the gym. The Beatles are still part of my… — Laurence Shames Copy Share Image
“Now for my pains, promise me-“ And she hesitated. “What?” asked Marius. “Promise me!” “I promise you.” “Promise to kiss me on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall… — Plato Copy Share Image
More than my other films, Uncle Boonmee is very much about cinema, that's also why it's personal. If you care to look,… — Apichatpong Weerasethakul Copy Share Image
“I don't even know how long she sobs. Time ceases to pass, and she cries, cries, cries. Clutches me and makes these… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Experience is a keen teacher; and long before you had mastered your A B C, or knew where the "white sails" of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Have patience, Margaret, and trouble not thyself. Death comes for us all; even at our birth—death does but stand aside a little.… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
“A sonnet might look dinky, but it was somehow big enough to accommodate love, war, death, and O.J. Simpson. You could fit… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s… — paul hoffman Copy Share Image
“Mortals are the sum of many things, Sieh. They are what circumstance has made them and what they wish to be. If… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“...perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience… — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
“Deadly Force should ONLY be used if you reasonably believe that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily… — Col Ben Findley Copy Share Image
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“I have been reading Plotinus all evening. He has the power to sooth me; and I find his sadness curiously comforting. Even… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
“If you love God with all your soul, then you know your life does not end with your death. They asked a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution…There comes a… — Jeanne Woodford Copy Share Image
If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified… after a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
