“Blessed is death, since it, through the divine power, disrobes us of this work day garment, to clothe us with the wedding… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“It is clear that as our walking is admittedly nothing but a constantly-prevented falling, so the life of our bodies is nothing… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“How do we know that dying is so dreadful? Who knows whether in our human fear and anguish, we are only shivering… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Each day at my job felt like one day closer to death; go to work, come home, watch TV, one whole day… — Matt Harding Copy Share Image
“Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on… — Mike Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c)… — Max More Copy Share Image
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
“ I remember that day in early May after Le Vesconte's and Private Pilkington's brief joint burial service, one of the men… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“For all his secrecy and fear of being seen, he was touched that we had observed him so closely, and with such… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I haven't been back to London for 40 years to do a play, so to play Madame Arcati there, she would be… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
“But what if someone kills somebody else?" Gurgeh shrugged. "They're slap-droned." "Ah! This sounds more like it. What does that drone do?"… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Jim had spent most of his life alone. The solitary nature of his disability and the constant moving had made it difficult… — Bonnie Dee Copy Share Image
“The belief in immortality is based on the strong instinct of self-preservation that calls forth an insatiable longing for longevity. It is… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Beef, once again, is in stark contrast to foods like wheat, which are so severely nutrient-deficient, they must have synthesized vitamins added… — Colin E. Champ Copy Share Image
“Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told.A song that can never be sung. For how… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
I'm going to kill you, Harry Potter. I'm going to destroy you. After tonight, no one will ever again question my power.… — Lord Voldemort Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“When Death comes and whispers to me, “Your days are ended,” let me say to him, “I have lived in love and… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“The World Health Organization estimates that 536,000 women perished in pregnancy or childbirth in 2005, a toll that has barely budged in… — Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why is grief, when inspired by certain types of loss, considered something to surmount, to get over, while when inspired by other… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. I have sent up my gladness on wings, to be… — Amelia Josephine Burr Copy Share Image
When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE… — John Green Copy Share Image
Someone's death can haunt you forever,someone's death can be a relief... but the death of someone you love may be one of… — Nafha Copy Share Image
“I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The… — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
“A vision of the Shining One swirling into our world, a monstrous, glorious flaming pillar of incarnate, eternal Evil--of people passing through… — A. Merritt Copy Share Image
“God Commissions Joshua JOSHUA 1 After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son… — Anonymous Copy Share Image