“Killing was a relatively simple matter--a blow to the head, a knife to the throat--complicated only by how much one cared about… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
“Do we really mean it when we say ‘in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do us… — Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker Copy Share Image
All of us have to deal with death at one time or another, but to have in one's heart a solid conviction… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“There must be two types of choices. Choices you make that seem harmless but can wind up lead to someone's father dying,… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with… — Anthony Green Copy Share Image
“We live and we die, but we are made of sterner stuff. The carbon atoms in our fingernails, the calcium in our… — Keith Heyer Meldahl Copy Share Image
“You begin to cry and writhe and yell and then to keep on crying; and finally, grief ends up giving you the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Experiencing grief and pain is like falling off a cliff. Everything has been turned upside down, and we are no longer in… — Dustin Shramek Copy Share Image
“No, my discovery was sex: of sex, by sex, fo r sex. This new-uncovered country, prohibited by the fascism of sensitivity, a… — Julian Darius Copy Share Image
Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
“Let me live my final days whole. Let my memory remain that I might know love's face. Life don't unwrap me to… — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“If we devoted as much effort to investigating the dead as we do to building the weapons that make them dead, we’d… — Jason Arnopp Copy Share Image
God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy did its part to further the goals of the Mercenaries—glamorizing death, making dying for love seem the most noble… — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
I think life after death is in the mind of the people around you. It's what's left in this world in the… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I’d finally given her what she wanted, the elixir of eternal youth, effected by the removal of her internal fire (the catalyst… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“What if following Jesus is about resurrection in a bigger way than people realize. Not just about rising again to new life… — David Holdsworth Copy Share Image
“You count the facts and it's so depressing. I can only eat baby food. My best friend screwed my fiancé. My fiancé… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It was a terrible thing when death first entered the world, and even now when it's the way of nature, it's terrible… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“What are you doing, Alys?" He'd turned to watch her, and his expression was disbelieving. She'd emerged from the winding staircase to… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“We can become so afraid of death that we never live, so afraid of failure that we never risk, so afraid of… — Erwin Raphael McManus Copy Share Image
Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There's a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“The multiverse has selected its champions – had selected you – and yet under the blazing suns, here we stand: self-seeking and… — Louise Blackwick Copy Share Image
“The losses in my life are so immense that I can barely stand and hardly breath. But I must remember that it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
One third of all of our cancers are from tobacco. It's one of the big killers in America and more than half… — Richard Jackson Copy Share Image
“For to fear death, men, is in fact nothing other than to seem to be wise, but not to be so. For… — Plato Copy Share Image
“It much honoureth God, when his servants can quietly and fearlessly trust in him, in the face of all the dangers and… — George Virtue Copy Share Image
“I have my dead and I have let them go and been surprised, to see them so consoled, so soon at home… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“After all, a kiss between real lovers is not some type of contract, a neatly defined moment of pleasure, something obtained by… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it weren't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good if it weren't for pain. Death gotta… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
