“And as he recalls the old soldier's wisdom regarding bullets and fate, how pointless evasion is when each shot has a man's… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poem from the last years of her life that begins "I lose my screams" dear Antigone,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“The septons sing of sweet surcease, of laying down our burdens and voyaging to a far sweet land where we may laugh… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Open your grief-stricken heart to the Lord. Weep and sincerely pray, 'O Lord, draw me towards You; give me peace of mind.'… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
We want to reach the kingdom of God, but we don't want to travel by way of death. And yet there stands… — Augustine Copy Share Image
“When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high piled books,… — John Keats Copy Share Image
If you think its natural for people to sacrifice their own lives to save others, surely you understand that sometimes a single… — MIGZIE_CUTE Copy Share Image
With the death of you my heart is empty my head is filled with hopeless questions I constantly ask but never expect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What an odd creature you are, Bernard, with your constant fear of death! Do you never have a feeling, as I do,… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull… — Maia Wojciechowska Copy Share Image
A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
“when you're young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting alone in the closet can fire your bones; when you're old… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Life can become a celebration if you know how to live without concern. Otherwise life becomes a long prolonged disease and illness… — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Isn't this the perfect image of the noblest selflessness, and thereby presents an example and a model? It should be inspiring: like… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
“I could accept my life ending, because there would be no more fear and no more pain. But what if death wasn´t… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk about the… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, a study of nearly 700 women in California showed an increased risk of fetal death among babies… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery;… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father… — Aliko Dangote Copy Share Image
If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of… — August Spies Copy Share Image
“We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life. A wild angel appeared to him, the angel… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“What’d you just do? Took yer pulse, Frank said with a yawn. Indeed they had, for when he pressed his hand to… — J.M. Hushour Copy Share Image
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“I nod, understanding. "You won't find any comfort in death." I promised her. "It's a void. It's nothing. You only want to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right… — Steve Tisch Copy Share Image