I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“The toxin generates the anti-toxin. The end lies concealed in the beginning. All bodies grow around a skeleton. Life is a petticoat… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently,… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge… — Bible Copy Share Image
“A man dies, girl, he isn't any more, least not down here. Respect and all that crap doesn't deserve the dead; it… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
The larger a star the shorter its life, but all the more fascinating its death. As it collapses within it’s body, the… — Kelly Easton Copy Share Image
In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Detroit is an urban hell. But even in this city of the dying auto industry, there is reason to hope, if they… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
“On 11 September 2012 crowds of friendly locals in Kabul, Afghanistan, were chanting the usual ‘Death to America’ slogans. At the same… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
“Death is somewhat easier to meet when you believe, as we do, that to end is to begin. You will learn to… — Camille DeAngelis Copy Share Image
“For a moment I was dizzied by the impulse to leave her there: shove the techs' hands away, shout at hovering morgue… — Tana French Copy Share Image
There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“Obviously, children die every day, and it is surely conceivable to every one of us that one of our children will pre-decease… — Caroline Overington Copy Share Image
You'll remember Newton was furious at Leibniz, because he developed calculus at the same time. And he went to his death believing… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Those who have entered into the afflictions of Christ for His Church's sake know something of what they mean, for they have… — Jessie Penn-Lewis Copy Share Image
“Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. It did the same thing that playing the piano had done… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give… — Randy Glasbergen Copy Share Image
Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. Abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. To have sex and death placed as… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Scientists have suggested that some whale deaths could be a result of marine noise, often a result of military activity, offshore drilling… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There were times when he sat watching the boy sleep that he would begin to sob uncontrollably but it wasn't about death.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I stood at the temple door interrogating the passersby about the mystery and merit of Love. And before me passed an… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“I am going to be Queen of England,' I protest. 'You make it sound like a battle to the death.' 'It is… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I think the big thing would be maybe the death of my brother. That was the hardest thing for me to take.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or… — Hafez Copy Share Image
“I was encouraged to ask in all seriousness what this life is for, what matters most for myself and others, what non-negotiable… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“I am waltzing with death, flirting with him, but he stands there smiling and saying nothing because he does not need to… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“It’s awful, telling it like this, isn’t it? As though we didn’t know the ending. As though it could have another ending.… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“No one in the family has ever really gotten over Bob’s death. We talk of him daily, recounting stories and imagining what… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
