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Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I… — Mamie Till Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a death wish. I’m just confused and trying to sort stuff out, trying to find a point to all… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
“Looking at herself in the mirror, she never forgot that death was hovering behind that face. Faint yet tenacious, like black writing… — Han Kang Copy Share Image
“ “The Black Death announces itself by the appearance of foul, egg-sized swellings that erupt on the bodies of its victims, followed… — Fiona Paul Copy Share Image
Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces,… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
“How curious it was, [...], that we humans had taken millions of year to crawl up out of the swamps and yet,… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
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I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It will become a pity when you fail to carry out your responsibility as a mortal human being, that Mr. pity can… — My Copy Share Image
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It was a fine summer morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man *would* have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Reflect on the “I” which can grasp all this. If the “I’ can grasp the idea of the universe and its laws,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“In Europe, what seems to bond toads and toadstools strongly is their shared role as potentially toxic "agents of death", and their… — Adrian Morgan Copy Share Image
“Her gust of laughter had a self-propelling recklessness I knew all too well from wild nights with Boris, an edge of giddiness… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
“Hazel Grace, like so many children before you—and I say this with great affection—you spent your Wish hastily, with little care for… — John Green Copy Share Image
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
“Fly (poem from the book Blue Bridge) Delicate, / butterfly winged, / we vainly push against the sky, / each trying to… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Its not that I love shedding tears always but your depature from this world would never let me stop crying, for I… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
“Was that not the way it ought to be? The beauty of Bruges lay in being dead. From the top of the… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not...… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Before I continue, I just want to write about living every day like your last one. I don’t agree with it at… — Cave Man Copy Share Image
“There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people… — Refaat Alareer Copy Share Image
“Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Into the wind we vary, Our hearts free of youth, Mold me into envy, If I can’t have your muse; Under toe,… — Adrianna Stepiano Copy Share Image
We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“They had met one another, at first not very often, throughout the heady autumn of the first London air raids. Never had… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
“You look as if you're planning my untimely death." [...] "You have a problem though—I'm your top assassin by far, and I… — Ocotillo Copy Share Image
I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image