“Maybe he was dead and this island was purgatory from which he could only watch the souls of the more deserving go… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“The ego is the culmination of our preferences and dislikes. Our ego represents the firm edges of how we perceive ourselves. An… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we… — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
“Now I saw his lifeless state. And that there was no longer any difference between what once had been my father and… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“To die of old age...is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death. It is the last and extremist kind of dying. It encourages… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Dreamed of maman again. She was telling me—O cruelty!—that I didn’t really love her. But I took it calmly, because I was… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force, Like a stroke of… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
“While it is hard to fathom who we are and how we are to live when public chaos shatters our routine, the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Every object, even those which had been hers, which he never touched, seemed to share his loss. He was suddenly parted from… — James Salter Copy Share Image
People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“She reached up, held his face between her palms. "How can I help but fret? You live wi' death on your heels."… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
“The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And the more I live, the more I dread death, even while I abhor life. Such an enigma is man -- born… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“darkness falls upon Humanity and faces become terrible things that wanted more than there was. all our days are marked with unexpected… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“Shall a man grave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them on the water? Nay, oh… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“From the onset of polio in 1921 until his death, Franklin, his family, his inner circle of advisers, and teams of physicians… — Steven Lomazow Copy Share Image
Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel.… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“Now I know grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
“If someone dies of anything other than extreme old age and natural causes, and often even then the death leaves a great… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“Some thirty-six years after the death of Leonidas, King Agesilaus of Sparta, as Plutarch recounts, showed that the essential Spartan spirit, which… — Ernle Bradford Copy Share Image
“Smartass Disciple: Master, what will happen to the men right after their death ? Master of Stupidity: They live with a same… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“At that time the individual did not exist. There was not an awareness of a distinction between “I” and “you”. The birth… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Men can imagine their own deaths, they can see them coming, and the mere though of impending death acts like an aphrodisiac.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I've been asked by lots of people, "What happens if you do kill yourself?" They want to know about what it would… — Albert Borris Copy Share Image
“I used to hunt for shooting stars. To know they had traveled billions of miles, just to burn and be over in… — M.N. Arzu Copy Share Image
“Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain - This Life flies; One thing is certain… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“We are not human beings having a human experience. Our bodies are temporary. We are souls. We are immortal; we are eternal.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image