I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh,… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated,… — James Gilligan Copy Share Image
...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“we should have been on top of that. we should have closed it down quick and clean, before anyone knew. in and… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
“Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Included in human nature is an intense love. Even, because of the power of imagination, man fancies a sort of immortality in… — Bediuzzaman Copy Share Image
We also have this reflex of using specialists for everything, instead of having the person who is there every day with them,… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
“Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
People often say that time heals all wounds and take away all griefs. The truth is there are certain sorrows and pains… — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share Image
He sees it in the juvenile street gangs, who live in fear of death and who propagate fear by inflicting death to… — Ed McBain Copy Share Image
Change the emphasis, turn your attention around. If you become concerned with death, your life comes to be revealed to you for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Death was always a double-edged sword. To him, the man standing before him might have been his enemy, but to someone else,… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
“As our fates have intertwined and the courses of our lives have been changed by a predetermined course of events, I have… — Josiah Morgan Copy Share Image
“For some girls, our bodies are not immortal so much as expendable, we have punished them or wearied from dragging them around… — Connie Voisine Copy Share Image
That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
By celebrating death, even of someone as evil as bin Laden, we let our worst impulses trump what Abraham Lincoln called the… — Jonathan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
I got these questions always running through my head So many things that I would like to understand If we are born… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The way the left is reacting to the death of Fidel Castro up against the incontrovertible facts of who he was, you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“None of this I'd mine. My father is not mine- not in that way. His death and what he's done are not… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive… — Karen White Copy Share Image
Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can… — Giuseppe Garibaldi Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t the first time I played on death’s porch, but it didn’t mean that I was used to it either. It… — Adrienne Woods Copy Share Image
“Prepare to evacuate soul in ten, in nine, eight. Chloe's splashing through the ankle-deep back-up of renal fluid from her failed kidneys.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Now Mrs. Greensleeve, who knew that she was going to die, thought of death in the same way a nightbound wanderer in… — Gerald Kersh Copy Share Image
“You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“If two pilgrims, which have wandered some few miles together, have a heart's grief when they are near to part, what must… — William Drummond 1623 Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Lately, it had been an endless procession of long, black nights and gray mornings, when her sense of failure swept over her… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
I learned through his death that, hey, life is short. You think you're going to live to be 75 years of age,… — Gale Sayers Copy Share Image
“She gave a little sob deep in her throat. 'Call it a prophecy, call it a prediction, call it fate - call… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust. Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriams. Forget them. Burn them… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Anyone who is outside this Church ... is walking a path not to Heaven but to Hell. He is not getting closer… — Fulgentius of Cartagena Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I get nice letters from people who know they're due to meet him (Death) soon, and hope I've got him right.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
