Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death,… — Coleman Dowell Copy Share Image
A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider… — Plato Copy Share Image
Jesus is humble, and His servants must not be proud; but Jesus was never mean or cowardly, nor must His servants be.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“A funny thing happened post-diagnosis. They put him on drugs, things went up and down, but he lived. He lived. It was… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!” — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of… — Yamada Koun Copy Share Image
What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made… — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
“I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was… — Robert Clark Copy Share Image
“He told his friends that if they really wanted to help him, they would treat him not with sympathy but with visits,… — Mitch Albom 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
I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The worst part about loving someone, Merripen, is that there will always be things you can't protect her from. Things beyond your… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won't find something to do and will get bored! What to do if… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective. — Anne Shropshire Copy Share Image
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
