“I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such a…”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.”— Temple Grandin, goodreads.com
“Most people don't realize that the slaughter plant is much gentler than nature. Animals in the wild die from starvation, predators, or exposure. If I had a choice, I would rather go through a slaughter system than have my guts ripped out by coyotes or lions while I was still conscious. Unfortunately…”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”— Steve Biko, en.wikiquote.org
“You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.”— Steve Biko, en.wikiquote.org
“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“Apparently orgasm is the only point where your mind becomes completely empty—you think of nothing for that second. That's why it's so compelling—it's a tiny taste of death. Your mind is void—you have nothing in your head save white light.”— Jeff Buckley, amazon.com
“I knew there were things I should never find beautiful. Like death. And girls.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn’t loved me enough to stay in it.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having p…”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”— Anaïs Nin, huffingtonpost.com
“Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our depa…”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“The thing is, when you lose someone, you realize you'll eventually lose everyone.”— John Green, amazon.com
“We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”— Rick Yancey, amazon.com