You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that. Michael Palmer backcrumbleday share on social
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. John Keats deathdeclinedivorcer Change image and share on social
If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is. Denis Leary bigcharacterdeath Change image and share on social
I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity. Mads Mikkelsen correctnesscreativitydeath Change image and share on social
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death. J. M. Coetzee africableedbody Change image and share on social
I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death. Fairuza Balk blackdeathgirl Change image and share on social
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war. John Ortberg addictbatterchild share on social
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. Robert Green Ingersoll compromisedeathdefy Change image and share on social
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. Paul Ricoeur contradictioncrossdeath Change image and share on social
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. Gustave Flaubert friend Change image and share on social
