“That is why humans resist life. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“People had always amazed him, he began. But they amazed him more since the sickness. For as long as the two of… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“I thought: "Perhaps Adelma is the city where you arrive dying and where each finds again the people he has known. This… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Look. (Mark held up his hands for Nick’s inspection.) They’re all pruny and wet. I’ll never have my soft sweet hands again.”… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death… — Byron White Copy Share Image
Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure if you would consider this a dream or a memory, because it actually happened, but when I fall asleep… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She taught me that the world would continue without me. And eventually I learned that lesson. It took some time...Everything is cliche.… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“Between 1980 and 2008, blacks made up 52.5% of homicide offenders, despite making up just 12.2% of the population. In the same… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“I thought of Bobby, of the last look he had given me, and at that moment I understood one of the differences… — Jaime Manrique Copy Share Image
“When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Man's only hope lies in "final redemption from the misery of volition and existence into the painlessness of non-being and non-willing." No… — Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann Copy Share Image
Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning!… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
There's a deep affection and respect for the Queen and the monarchy in the U.K. But Diana was an extraordinary, iconic figure… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
My arms have mutinied against me brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls;… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I suspect that, though Craig indulges in a bit of wishful thinking, playing taps for various critical approaches still quite far from… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“There is no death in this world. Even when the tree falls, it makes the soil fertile to give birth to life.… — Aruna Shenoy Copy Share Image
“Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed,… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“His death notice included the mention that in 1880, he had married Alice in Wonderland. I like to think he would have… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
I believe in the immortality of the Theatre, it is a most joyous place to hide, for all those who have secretly… — Max Reinhardt Copy Share Image
'Orphee' is, for me, about changes: about moving to a new city, leaving behind an old life in Copenhagen, and building a… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future,… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“In the vast expanse of human experience, few pains rival the agony of losing someone beloved, for it is in their absence… — Shree Shambav Copy Share Image
“Experiencing Death is like experiencing Life for both are complete within themselves and they both have same effect on the human mind,… — Maitreya Rudrabhayananda Copy Share Image
I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it,… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
We didn't like the idea of Dixie Chick action figures. I mean that's just the kiss of death for a group. How… — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
“Fear is an unavoidable element of the mortal condition. Creation in all its ravishing beauty, with its infinite baroque embellishments and subtle… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If you have a plan," hissed Sumael from the corner of her mouth, "now would be the time." "I have a plan,"… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I have worked in 60 countries, covered wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and spent much of 2014 living inside West Africa's Ebola… — Daniel Berehulak Copy Share Image
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that." "Not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
