Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for." "Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for." "And anything… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I call it financial impotence, this notion of not having enough money, because it has the same characteristics as sexual impotence. And… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in… — John Green Copy Share Image
I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life?… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“This book carries the urgency of racing against time, of having important things to say. Paul confronted death—examined it, wrestled with it,… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“Death lurks in the shadows, just out of view. Now and then I see his reaching hand, uncertain of the blurry image… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear,… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“It’s funny how when you are dying, you still fight for the upper hand. You want to pick the terms; you want… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“...nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
You don't want to spend your life writing about stuff that doesn't matter. You want to try to pull out of the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy delicatessens with slanted… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
I don't sleep much. Five to six, I'd say. You could argue that people, as they get older, sleep less - probably… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“Since the dawn of existence, you mortals have feared dying, feared the unknown and the pain of it, and yet, pain is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
To me, I was just doing my job when I took the field, but to understand how close I came to death,… — Rod Carew Copy Share Image
I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We are going to file a suit to the Hague tribunal, which must investigate into these crimes against humanity, it is a… — Petro Poroshenko Copy Share Image
“It's only horrible if you see it that way," Morrie said. "It's horrible to watch my body slowly wilt away to nothing.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
“Death is not an end. It is a new beginning. It entails a magnificent reunion with God and all the wonderful souls… — Allan Hamilton Copy Share Image
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Tom," she said, faintly, far away, "in the Southern Seas there's a day in each man's life when he knows it's time… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
“I don't want to die," she repeated, her voice trembling. "I want to live. I want to live life with all its… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
“This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have? 'Some war,' he said… — John Green Copy Share Image
“ "Ry-Rylan?" Ivy's voice is faint. I crawl over to her side, my eyes never once straying from hers. "Rylan?" "I'm here,"… — Colleen Boyd Copy Share Image
A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears;… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
