“Cyrano: The leaves--- Roxane: What color---Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall. Cyrano: Yes---they know how to die. A little way From… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Monsieur Josserand died very quietly - a victim of his own honesty. He had lived a useless life, and he went off,… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I hadn't thought about Mom as much as I probably should have lately. It was a relief not to have all those… — Karen Ann Hopkins Copy Share Image
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only;… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“By the death of Mr. O. Chanute the world has lost one whose labors had to an unusual degree influenced the course… — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the… — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I didn't know it, but my father had a brain tumour. Everything happened very fast. Within a year, he was gone. Because… — Henrikh Mkhitaryan Copy Share Image
“That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
When Im experiencing the intense pangs of grief, it is so difficult to trust , But I have learned over and over… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“You are living in a blessed time now, Reuben, and you will be until all those you love here are gone, until… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
“It is this admirable, this immortal, instinctive sense of beauty that leads us to look upon the spectacle of this world as… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of… — Nita Lowey Copy Share Image
O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
“What is there in music that it should so stir our deeps? We are all ordinarily in a state of desperation; such… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...and yet the idea is hard to accept, it's so hard to succeed in making something happen, even what's been decided on… — Javier Marias Franco Copy Share Image
If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We rode in silence for a while and I wondered if men were the world's leaves. If as we aged the world… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution,… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen thousands of mortal girls,” he said softly, “more than you could ever count, from all corners of your world. To… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
We need to have a modicum of faith in people's common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“Doctore, simt ceva mortal Aici în regiunea fiinţei mele, Mă dor toate organele, Ziua mă doare soarele, Iar noaptea luna şi stelele.… — Marin Sorescu Copy Share Image
The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade,… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“It was the first genuinely shining day of summer, a time of year which brought Eleanor always to aching memories of her… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
