When I perform, I always opt for communication with God, and in pursuit of communicating with God, you can enter some very… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In my hands is power. The power to hear or to destroy. To grant life or to cause death. I revere this… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
“My father was a Catholic, a coal miner in the Big Pit. My mother a Jew. A charwoman, when she could find… — Patrick Reinken Copy Share Image
Do I miss him? Of course I do. Every day. His death was devastating, he was just 51. But you know, in… — Peter Kay Copy Share Image
She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You see, we find comfort in telling ourselves that the world could not exist without us, that it exists only inasmuch as… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When you're a young person, you are biologically driven to believe you are immortal, and that's why you engage in all kinds… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“your son has paid the soldier’s price: death. He only lived long enough to become a man, and as soon as he… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“He had recorded a message to be played upon his death. He had told no one—except Teela, his shopping companion and health… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“As a physician, who has been deeply privileged to share the most profound moments of people's lives including their final moments, let… — Bernadine Healy Copy Share Image
“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Memory is identity…You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“He should've read the contract a little closer before he signed, but being moments from a painful and violent death had provided… — Andrea Laurence Copy Share Image
It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Have to be honest with you Darquesse, I cannot feel that. That must be one of your special abilities, because to me,… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Oh, certainly, death, sudden and violent, was a good way to foil his implacable enemies, who seemed to be pursuing him with… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I once was a stranger to grace and to God, I knew not my danger, and felt not my load; Though friends… — Robert Murray McCheyne Copy Share Image
In those days, when I was a little kid, I met the truer more authentic people of my life. The men were… — Gianni Versace Copy Share Image
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Knowing you brought happiness to my life but your depature brought tears to my face. For I know your memory is all… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
“In addition, Dr. Dannyboy has suggested a fifth element: positive thinking. Pointing out that their breathing, bathing, dining and screwing brought Alobar… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is… — Mark X Copy Share Image
“I notice I am taking risks with my own security and losing my sensitivity to danger. I don't know it at the… — Jason Elliot Copy Share Image
Now: For those of you who are lazy I can offer no hope: death will not bring you an eternal resting place.… — Seth Copy Share Image
I would say the thing you can still see in Black Mirror is that I was probably traumatized by the specter of… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“Life may be scary But it’s only temporary. And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Earth can be bad for your health too. On land, grizzly bears want to maul you; in the oceans, sharks want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“In the Netherlands, for beating to death a fellow human, you might receive eight years, I figured. It wasn’t much. With a… — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
“The mind that is accumulating is frightened to die, and such a mind can never discover what is truth. But to a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image