“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
One question," I said. "Did you tell me all that because you think I'm going to die?" "No," he said. "It's because… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in… — Joan of Arc Copy Share Image
A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature… — William Jay Copy Share Image
Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was… — Nas Copy Share Image
When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So let me get this straight,” Carter said. “The two guys you liked—one who was dying and one who was off-limits because… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The closer you get to death, the more alive you feel. Dylan Thomas wrote, Do not go gentle into that good night.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
I get this thing called death anxiety where I think I'm going to die. I'm so worried because I'm scared about dying… — Charlotte Crosby Copy Share Image
It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“I discovered that people are not really afraid of dying; they're afraid of not ever having lived, nor ever having deeply considered… — Joseph Jaworski Copy Share Image
I tell my kids, what is the difference between a hero and a coward? What is the difference between being yellow and… — Cus D'Amato Copy Share Image
Regardless of how many people I surrounded myself with, no matter how many friends and family I loved and was loved by… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I didn't want to try to kill myself, didn't want the blood, and the hysterical parents, and the guilt, or any of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is this?! I couldn't die back when I would've been glad to die anywhere, anytime, but now that dying would take… — Yukako Kabei Copy Share Image
I remember when my father was dying, I remember listening to Bjork, and listening to John Coltrane, and these things, and I… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land." "Like me, then," I said.… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
Latinos have fought in all of America’s wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Talk about a woman of a certain age - Pearl Buck was a great prototype of continuing to work. She was in… — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
... our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands… — Orlando Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The lion-as proud as the diamond bright, Though the spell may be clouding that radiant light-in the death of the sun what's… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“His own true hidden reality that he had desired to know grew palpable, recognizable. It seemed to him just this: a great,… — Clemence Housman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, Osama bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstanding injustices in the Arab world: the conying so. And, tinued occupation… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I have no problem with two teams claiming to be national champions at the end of the year. But that's our society.… — Kirk Ferentz Copy Share Image
So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Bombing is a very dangerous option because it's so convenient and because at home it's politically acceptable because our boys aren't dying… — Pierre Sprey Copy Share Image
