It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“...there are stories of hunters who are famous for whatever reason. We tend not to like fellows who shoot a lot of… — Brian Doyle Copy Share Image
“I'll remember you, he thinks, and as the gun carriage, with its coffin and its dented helmet pass him by, he closes… — Anna Hope Copy Share Image
“The cerebral processing of that visceral input as a signal of death was accurate. Without the kinds of therapy that had been… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
“All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Mortality is a school of suffering and trials. We are here that we may be educated in a school of suffering and… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
“I am talking about something more than just the gauzy circle of life. Sure, you're older now and one day you're going… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“Life is a temporary condition, Henry. And it's uncertain. That's why you have to seize chances when you find them. Pursue what… — Martha Brockenbrough Copy Share Image
“Dad leapt over the garden wall instead of going through the gate. Sadly he didn‘t do himself a severe injury, and so… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Just remember, loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form. If there is something that still wounds… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the… — Edward Payson Roe Copy Share Image
“I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“No one will read what I write here, no one will come to help me... My ship is rudderless, it's driven by… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The way of the samurai is found in death. When it comes to either or, there is only the quick choice of… — Nabeshima Naoshige Copy Share Image
“The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“mother was under virtual sentence of death, and Vicky flew to the bedside and knelt beside her. ‘Oh, Mama,’ she whispered, stricken… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Believe me, when you're sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you're going through… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
“He'd learned something. Life was booby-trapped and there was no easy passage through. You had to jump from colour to colour, from… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
“I left the cemetery and headed straight to the tattoo parlor. "Love is stronger than death" has been etched on my heart… — Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl Copy Share Image
Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he… — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneous. Jesus showed… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Now I saw, without doubt or fear or ambivalence, that it was appropriate, even ethical, for me to provide this care. More:… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
“After listening in, Franny had decided that magic was not so very far from science. Both endeavors searched for meaning where there… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image