It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet… — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind...for when I die, the first face I will ever see… — Fanny Crosby Copy Share Image
“And when you give up your dreams, an important part of who you are dies with them, and so does that which… — Jeff O'Leary Copy Share Image
I'm late to everything. I've always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
It was plain to see the Hollywood undertakers take care of everything. If you die you don't have to lift a finger. — Jack Paar Copy Share Image
If a spiritual being is naive to the lower aspects of the world, they usually are killed or die young. Did Jesus… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky! For who would live so petty… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Your friend dies, and people always say, 'Oh, he lives through me,' or whatever. But it's just sad that they're not living.… — Lil Tracy Copy Share Image
“Deeds which populate the dimensions of space and which reach their end when someone dies may cause us wonderment, but one thing,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
“…youth dies when you stop believing that you can affect the hand you're dealt at birth. The reality is, sometimes you just… — John Gilstrap Copy Share Image
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am a feminist, but I'm not an extremist. I know what feminism is, but I'm not all women empowerment, marching in… — Scheana Marie Copy Share Image
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
I wish that I was dead. Oh, they'll be sorry then. I hate them and I'll kill myself tomorrow. I want to… — Vernon Scannell Copy Share Image
I think it's terrible to show that to kids. It's - I think you should - if you - if you do… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
Survival of the world depends on our sharing what we have, and working together. If we don't the whole world will die.… — Frank Fools Crow Copy Share Image
You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen,… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people.… — Damon Keith Copy Share Image
We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Jesus did not come to live as an example of how to die as a martyr, but as a substitute, taking the… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. .… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
If someone accidentally ingests sodium azide, you shouldn't try to resuscitate the person because you could die, too, giving CPR. This is… — William Davis Copy Share Image
Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care,'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the… — George Wither Copy Share Image
