From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these… — Katharine McPhee Copy Share Image
“But mortification - literally, "making death" - is what life is all about, a slow discovery of the mortality of all that… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
We're not robbing him," Skulduggery said." But I'm afraid I have some bad news." "Is it Deacon?" Francine asked, her eyes wide.… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“I think we should all live as if we are dying too – because we are, make no mistake. We should live… — Eva Woods Copy Share Image
There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, "I missed the ordinary… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out.… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
On days where I feel the karma is in balance I'm not afraid of death. And when I feel it's weighing heavily… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
People race to achieve everything by a certain age in their life, be it 40, 50 or 60 - but with increasing… — Tom Butler-Bowdon Copy Share Image
“Part of this experience involves your being able to say to a person who is dying, "You are loved. You are beautiful.… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself,… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to… — Robert Tappan Morris Copy Share Image
“As far as he could discover, there were no signs of spring. The decay that covered the surface of the mottled ground… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The crying… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
If this is the last time, let me say it so you never forget. I will always love you, Deuce. No matter… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that… — Elie Faure Copy Share Image
That dying feeling you get' when the one you truly love leaves you saying she can't forget her ex after what not… — Nzan Dark Pandemic Ovung Copy Share Image
