“WE stowed the wheels, uncapped the sledge-runners, put on our sis, and took off -- down, north, onward, into that silent vastness… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I knew a girl, once, immortal like me-" "And she was with someone mortal?" said Alec. "What happened?" "He died," Magnus said.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Cyrano: The leaves--- Roxane: What color---Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall. Cyrano: Yes---they know how to die. A little way From… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
“Monsieur Josserand died very quietly - a victim of his own honesty. He had lived a useless life, and he went off,… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“I hadn't thought about Mom as much as I probably should have lately. It was a relief not to have all those… — Karen Ann Hopkins Copy Share Image
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only;… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the… — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
“By the death of Mr. O. Chanute the world has lost one whose labors had to an unusual degree influenced the course… — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I didn't know it, but my father had a brain tumour. Everything happened very fast. Within a year, he was gone. Because… — Henrikh Mkhitaryan Copy Share Image
“That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
When Im experiencing the intense pangs of grief, it is so difficult to trust , But I have learned over and over… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to… — William Cameron Forbes Copy Share Image
“Then I looked at myself in the mirror. I was proud of myself, of my entire life, of everything I have done.… — Benjamin Breedlove Copy Share Image
“(On WWI:) A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili or in English, and,… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“What do you fear when you fear everything? Time passing and not passing. Death and life. I could say my lungs never… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze. Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet. Age: five thousand three hundred days. Profession: none, or "starlet" Where are you hiding,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“How can a school prepare you for murderers and mad-men?' Taro asked. 'Friends who would betray you to your death. People in… — Moira J. Moore Copy Share Image
“Yes, Jesus by His death and resurrection routs the demonic powers, but He does so by freeing humanity from what enslaves us… — Adam Greenway Copy Share Image
“The figures for 2002 are even more surprising. Out of 57 million dead, only 172,000 people died in war and 569,000 died… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Well, this is a mystery,” said Farder Coram, “and I’m glad I lived long enough to see it. To go into the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
How strange a vehicle it is, coming down unchanged from times of old romance, and so characteristically black, the way no other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
“Yamamoto was considered, both in Japan and the United States, as intelligent, capable, aggressive, and dangerous. Motivated by his skill as a… — Dale A. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“> ...all I could think was what hell it is for the survivors when death slams into life without warning and smashes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She had a brief affair with a novelist, W. L. River, whose Death of a Young Man had been published several years… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
“You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said. "And it's the survivors who maintain the most light… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Death. I thought it would be gardens, perhaps. Beautiful countryside with cool streams. It's only blackness. Nervous and dark. There is no… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional… — Rai Aren Copy Share Image
If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
