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“She is the harbinger of nightmares as well as death, destruction, and insanity. Said to reign in an alternate dimension, a bleak… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
His great act of condescension in becoming man and His willingness to be completely humiliated in the death on the cross is… — John F Walvoord Copy Share Image
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Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
What is the reason, I'm still alive, I'm begging you please, Tell me why, The fear of life, The fear of death,… — Oliver Copy Share Image
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In all our losses, all our gains, In all our pleasures, all our pains, The life of life is: Love remains. In… — Theodore Tilton Copy Share Image
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life.… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
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Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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When you get older, you are told constantly that you should be there for your parents' deaths, otherwise you will regret it.… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
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