“If words are the power of life and death, you just pointed a loaded gun at your head.” — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
The natural laws of the universe are inviolable... what you say and do determines what happens in your life... You are the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than… — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
“free life” as described by a mountaineer: “The mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“...reinforced the suspicion, I had always entertained that the border between life and death is less impermeable than we commonly think,...(p. 395)” — W. G. Sebald Austerlitz 2001 Copy Share Image
“In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“It's interesting how people use that expression, life and death. As if to imply that life is the opposite of death, but… — Dawson's Creek finale Copy Share Image
“In a sentence: Life is bad, but so is death. Of course, life is not bad in every way. Neither is death… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,'… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The religious man, the mystic, tries to explore the mystery of death. In exploring the mystery of death, he inevitably comes to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It is my dearest hope that one day I shall be the one to discover the GUT-the Grand Unified Tale, the one… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The moment between breaths Is the balance of the Force. Between life and death. Rest and action. Serenity and passion. Hope and… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
I believe the approach we take to talking to our kids about drugs can, in some cases, mean the difference between life… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy would lose its magical qualities, life without pain… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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 don’t want to know wreckage, dreck, and waste, but these are the materials and so are the slow lift of the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Depending on one’s point of view, Hagakure represents a mystical beauty intrinsic to the Japanese aesthetic experience, and a stoic but profound… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Public crises, particularly those concerning life and death, offer demagogues ample opportunity to amass more power. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl,… — Mary-Lou Weisman Copy Share Image