J. R. R. Tolkien

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 14

Death

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

Marcus Aurelius 16

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 11

Death

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

Alex Campbell 10

Death

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

John James Audubon 10

Death

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Deepak Chopra 10

Death

Death is the separation of soul from body.

Chrysippus 8

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 8

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 14

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 7