When I decided to write about my brother and friends, I was attempting to answer the question why. Why did they all… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it… — Melanie Brown Copy Share Image
People told me to give up trying to be special and settle down to a regular life. There ain't nothing wrong with… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
In the Buddhist texts, some of them say, when you die, basically that wild horse gets cut loose, and the mind is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
At some point my friends and I began to ask, how can a country that produced hippies and such cool people also… — Nguyen Qui Duc Copy Share Image
...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid,… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
O Prosperina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities… What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on your way… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears,… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses… — Victor Villaseñor Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing: Toll ye the church bell sad and slow, And… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“They walked over to the body, thinking that perhaps they could still save the man’s life. They couldn’t believe that there wasn’t… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack.… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama has the overall right strategy and he's been right to resist bringing in massive numbers of American troops.… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
