The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very... →
Helen Oyeyemi
Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of... →
Cynthia Ozick
Only in death will I relinquish my belts.
Manny Pacquiao
The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a... →
Elaine Pagels
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas Paine
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles... →
I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You... →
Carl Paladino
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
Chuck Palahniuk
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.