“Everyone fears catastrophes and disasters and crashes and deaths, and people who attack you in the dark. You made all that worse… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
“It was the custom, rigidly adhered to," Luke said, turning the brandy in his glass, "for the public executioner, before a quartering,… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Yeah I know you're a creature of the night. Bringer of death, sucker of blood, needer of tans, so on and so… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“The fear of dying is not just the terror of pain, the humiliation of the loss of faculties, the fall into the… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“The Inevitable Tide by Stewart Stafford The inevitable tide comes, To claim every one of us, Whether sufficient breath of life, Is… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Then Caspian caught up a battle-axe and rushed upon the Lord Drinian to kill him, and Drinian stood still as a stock… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not… — Salvador Dalí Copy Share Image
“Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a month in a Hospital for the Dying.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We want the ability to re-engineer our bodies and minds in order, above all, to escape old age, death and misery, but… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“How he died hadn't been funny, Newt thought. "It's all right, though," Augustus said. "It's mostly bones we're riding over anyway. Why,… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Surya explained to him how fear of death makes plants seek nourishment and grow towards sunlight and water. Fear of death is… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Sir James Frazer speculated that the original oral myth about the Garden of Eden was not about a Tree of Knowledge and… — Howard Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Everyone gets killed in the shower. Don't you go to the movies? Psycho. Dead in shower. The MExican in No country for… — Derek B. Miller Copy Share Image
“Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning… — Joseph Roach Copy Share Image
Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when… — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
“[A] right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it an… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased. I heard what you said just now to my… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“All the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightnessof human genius, are destined to extinctionin… — Betrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The survivor spoke to us though, or tried to. Mumbling through that matted brown beard of his, pale as death itself. I… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
“I want to feel the rush of death, the high of utter nothingness, the fragility of my own mortality. Let it slip… — Kayla Krantz Copy Share Image
“t nightfall, at the oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes rose out of the swamps, and a tender breath… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The fortunate is he whose earnest purpose never swerves, Whose slightest action or inaction serves The one great aim. Why, even Death… — Ella Wilcox Wheeler Copy Share Image
If death is a debt must to pay, then you should not be afraid to live your life making the best of… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
“No: that fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived with him, it had been another shadow cast over… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Fox was here first, and his brother was the wolf. Fox said, people will live forever. If they die they will not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Before my dad died I saw the world as a place. By "place" I mean space. Fixed. Space did not move, but… — Amy Fusselman Copy Share Image
When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“For me, the dying part wasn’t so horrible. I was only in pain for a few moments before death arrived. For me,… — Suzannah Daniels Copy Share Image