“Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“For a moment they still lived and I experienced their deaths as a fresh loss with each waking, so that I was… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“But you've never wanted that. You wanted a mirror. People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She wasn't even a year old yet, and she died. she died right in my arms. imagine that, your whole world just… — Patience Copy Share Image
“It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to name just a few. Forget the scythe, Goddamn it, I… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“You don't even have a cross," he said. His beloved was silent. "You don't even have any candles, no face of Christ,… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“First, Lord: No tattoos. May neither Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches. May she… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
When there's an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information that often makes the difference between life and… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“Always too eager for the future, we Pick up bad habits of expectancy. Something is always approaching; every day Till then we… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“She stands at the hairpin turn on Night Road. On either side of her, giant evergreens grow clustered together, rising high into… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“After that, I felt like I had two lives. There was the me I had been before the attack, the one people… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a monster inside of me and I'm afraid one day I'm going to snap and it will come… — Hunter Copy Share Image
“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
We came to fear something more complicated than death, an annihilation less final but more complete, and we got out. Becausewe all… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
It is a country that professes to care for babies. But in the United States, the infant death rate is twice as… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we… — Allan Loeb Copy Share Image
Depression is the worst kind of killer. It corners you at night, or when you're all alone, and slowly eats away at… — Lynn Copy Share Image
“You are mortal. You will not last long.' ... 'That's what mortal means,' I say with a sigh that I don't have… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“It was nearly winter. I had just seen a friend die, and was again beginning to take pleasure in my own existence.… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
“Gingerly, Daniel reached toward the infant. "What if she doesn't like me?" "She'll spit acid in your eye and you'll die a… — Jacqueline Diamond Copy Share Image
“A good death, everyone agreed, to die at home in bed as Prudence Jaxon had. But Peter had been at her side… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“If in fact your time to be called before God, you typically won't know it. Sometimes you will, and these are the… — Rusty Bradley Copy Share Image
“The weeping willows, on the other hand, are evocative of death. They are a little contrived, a little exaggerated, still green in… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
You see people who, because they are leading actors, think they're of a higher echelon than mere mortals. And that really annoys… — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
“No matter how death may inch over me, there will always be an unconquerable place inside my being that is beyond the… — Anoir Ou-Chad Copy Share Image
“Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life, We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
“He stopped and took my hand. "If we die, or if I die..." He was speaking of dying, and I couldn't stop… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
