This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“When a man destroys his fellow, people say that such a one is a murderer. When one set in authority destroys, it… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“When I think of my father’s eyes I’m reminded of blood. I’m reminded of hate. I’m reminded of death. How in a… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
“Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. For every profit in one thing, payment in some other thing. For every… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
“And so we come to the last crisis, that of integrity versus disgust and despair. Throughout the life-cycle the pieces have been… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
“Be strong! … You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“… Damned is the soul that dies while the evil it committed lives on. And the most damned of all are those… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In expectation of his demise, a successful businessman may sell out to his competitors to prepare his estate with readily marketable securities,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
“But you will not spare a drop of pity because I am rich? We have death in our gilded courts, too. We… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to… — Horace Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Death is more merciful than hope itself! There is nothing surprising in this, for death is divinely appointed, while hope is the… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Now we've got that [children's death rate] down to about 5 percent, so we've more than cut it in half, and that's… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Certain things existed out of time. It was ten years ago, it was this morning. In that way the accident was like… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
“The woman dying of cancer in The Barracks facing the raw fear of everything in her life disintegrating. The abused adolescent boy… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
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If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάντατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες (Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life.)” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and… — Stanley Loomis Copy Share Image
“He didn't know why the Shadows wanted the brother and sister, but if he allowed himself to dwell on it too long… — J Meyers Copy Share Image
Therefore 'Christ hath tasted death for every man:' not only for all kinds of men, as some vainly talk, but for every… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
“Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeve of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Iniquity and affront An affront is an injustice done to someone and, as a consequence, the person remains in grief and dishonor.… — Ana Mendez Ferrell Copy Share Image
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The beauty and the tragedy of the modern world is that it eliminates many situations that require people to demonstrate a commitment… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
You knew everything you'd ever know in your life time, before you took your first breathe and after that you started marching… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies' ills or… — Virgil Copy Share Image
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“Decebel pulled Jen close in a show of gentleness that she was beginning to notice he only displayed to her. “You don’t… — Quinn Loftis Copy Share Image
“Personal growth commences with an ego death. Self-pride blunts personal growth because the ego resists change. The ego wants to maintain the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
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