death

"Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go."

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

"We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything."

"Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever blossom the flowers.Not forever reigneth joy,Sets the sun on days of bliss,Friendships not forever last,They know not life, who know not this."

"To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)"

"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."

"When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time."

"Justice will prevail!"

"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live."

"Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?""I don't know. I don't think so.""Then how do people recognize each other?""I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right?"

"Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience."

"When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!"

"And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have."

"No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping."

"Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it."

"We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us"

"If you’re going to hang around and watch me write, you might as well have a noose around your neck. Would you mind if I kicked the chair out from under your feet? You’re standing on my only place to sit."

"I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam."

"But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there."

"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."