Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Until about 1970 when parents beat their children to death they very often escaped punishment. They would be prosecuted if it was… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“I bear witness of that day when loved ones whom we knew, to have disabilities in mortality, will stand before us glorified… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“I don't think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it's crucial that they work together. It… — Chelsie Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A lark, caught in a hunter’s net Sang sweeter then than ever, As if the falling melody Might wing and net dissever… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“She’d passed the fear barrier, and she’d lived, and she’d discovered not certain death, as she’d imagined, but impossible splendor. What other… — Krystal Sutherland Copy Share Image
“My grandfather has been around the block. He’s experienced love and loss. Birth and death. He’s lived through floods and storms and… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
“When we died, the only things we’d leave behind of importance were our deeds. Our corpses would rot and our treasured belongings… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“Death changes everything in a flash. That’s the reality of the situation. If all these things can be changed in an instant,… — Michael A. Singer Copy Share Image
“We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be… — Khalid ibn al-Walid Copy Share Image
“People ought to be told of such things. Ought to be taught that immortality is mortal, that it can die, it's happened… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
“We might as well face it: Death is a bore. It is even harder on the survivors than on the deceased, who… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
My grandmother has always been my biggest fan, and she was my whole life. The only thing that kept me living after… — Tori Bowie Copy Share Image
Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The wind stung from a sudden gust of cold air. Talis exhaled forcefully, wishing she hadn’t brought up the subject of his… — John Forrester Copy Share Image
“And he had begun to feel then what he was feeling now: the complex and awful mental and physical interaction that is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Death is the moment of form dissolving. When that dissolving is not resisted, an opening appears into the dimension of the sacred,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead--too… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“When you were still here, Isobe thought, death seemed so far removed from me. It was as though you stood with both… — Shusaku Endo Copy Share Image
I will work hard to try to get rid of the death penalty. If I could do that, with all the other… — Ernie Chambers Copy Share Image
You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“He bent over Farid and wiped some soot from his cold forehead. "Roxanne knows it," he said. "She'll tell it to you.… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“In the face of relentless challenges that test the very core of human strength, I’ve emerged, not unscathed, but enduring. Each day… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
“The Ladies Buddenbrook from Breite Strasse did not weep, however - it was not their custom. Their faces, a little less caustic… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
A birth is a death. Everything you treasure, and believe in, and love, and relate to is destroyed for you when you… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I love you, Esmeralda,” he said. “I love you, too,” she whispered back, and he couldn’t help smiling. At least he would… — JL Bryanyan Copy Share Image
“When my mother was alive, I was the daughter first and everything else second… That's what made her death so painful. My… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
“There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
