Thomas Merton

Death

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the...

Marcus Aurelius 59

Death

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Marcus Aurelius 63

Death

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein 52

Death

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

John James Audubon 63

Death

Death is the separation of soul from body.

Chrysippus 58

Death

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about...

J. K. Rowling 53

Death

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out...

Joel C. Rosenberg 52

Death

A few hours after the news broke about the death of crime writer Donald E. Westlake, a newspaper asked me to write a tribute. In short order I did so,...

Sarah Weinman 57

Death

Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.

Frederica Mathewes-Green 53

Death

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all...

Yuichiro Miura 37