death

"Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die."

"...what happens when you returnand find nothingbut a hollowed shell,shingles and floor,walls and echoesand the light that lead you herehas now burned outand the ones who built ithave traveled afarand you cant go to them,no matter what shoes you wear."

"No drowning man can know which dropOf water his last breath did stop"

"He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'I lean over. My hair smothers him.'Then you should never have been born,' I say."

"I may be alive now, but in a series of moments I won’t be. And let it be said about me: He didn’t waste his time talking to conch shells, but he did listen to what they had to say about the ocean."

"They never fail who die in a great cause."

"Now comes the mystery! (last words)"

"Yesterday I saved a baby, a boy, a man, and an old man from death, and all by simply not impregnating anybody. But I don't consider myself a hero. Merely heroic, and also unable to reach any of my lady friends on the phone."

"I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it."

"How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die"

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

"The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death."

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone"

"I have stitched life into me like a rare organ"

"He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled. Either somebody had really had it in for him or four people had killed him. Or else it was the cleverest suicide I'd ever heard of."

"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared."

"Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever."

". . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do."

"Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead."

"So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born."