With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life's legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can… — William James Copy Share Image
The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
“But I being fond of true philosophy, Say very often to myself, 'Alas! All things that have been born were born to… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“Silent, unseen, small cousin of death, Born this instant, closer than breath, Killer of thought, assassin of dreams, Memory's surgeon, the end… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
“Mortals are odd creatures in that sense—flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding… — Hayden Thorne Copy Share Image
I believe the approach we take to talking to our kids about drugs can, in some cases, mean the difference between life… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Gently, I reach forward and close her eyes with my fingertips, hoping it will make her seem merely asleep. But the stillness… — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New… — Al Goldstein Copy Share Image
“how that is the corpse's powerful capability That rupture The deaths of those disappeared and murdered by the State / and the… — Carrie Lorig Copy Share Image
“A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they— Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
“Murderers can use multiple sites from the moment they capture their victims. However, the main scene is where death occurs. It’s usually… — Gary Lequipe Copy Share Image
“To All My Mariners in One Forget the many who talk much, say little, mean less and matter least Forget we live… — Samuel Hazo Copy Share Image
Dying well is part of living well and one day our society will surely recognize that. But I suppose we'll only know… — Victor Lewis-Smith Copy Share Image
“We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“only when we see Jesus’s death in its proper connection to this entire narrative, can we begin to resolve the questions we… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I had been allowed to believe in man's innate goodness for the twenty-two years of my life, and I had hoped to… — Charlotte Rogan Copy Share Image
“But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn’t offer a… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
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To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult,… — Amy Wright Copy Share Image
Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I think there comes a point when the outcome of a battle is inevitable but the fighting has not ended. Then the… — Adrian G. Hilder Copy Share Image
I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I don't look at failure as death, I don't look at failure as finality. I just look at it and pick myself… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
My dad died in May of '97. The effects of his death immediately were not all that hard, but a year or… — Wayne Watson Copy Share Image
“At times because of one man’s evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, it must and dare not be considered a trifling matter but a most serious one to seek counsel against this and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“How well can we really know another person? People can be in your lives for years- they can fill your lives. But… — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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