What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. Zane Grey bloodcolddark Change image and share on social
I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness. Aaron Huey deathemptinessimminent Change image and share on social
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom. Rachel Corrie applecookdeath Change image and share on social
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living. Gilbert Parker beardaydeath share on social
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. Florence Nightingale backconventionalitydeath Change image and share on social
Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life. T. E. Lawrence bedouinbringdeath Change image and share on social
A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide. Peter Benchley accidentanimalattack share on social
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is. Mitt Romney deathdependencyfight Change image and share on social
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. D. H. Lawrence abolishaccumulationalive share on social
I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part. Mitt Romney candidateclipdeath share on social
