death

"It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting."

"You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same."

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

"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination."

"I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!"And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going."

"Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest."

"Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives."

"The dead know everything but they don't give a damn."

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

"You can’t go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours."

"It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life."

"But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave."

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

"Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon."

"I drink coffee like steam is the ghost of dead water. Ever tried inhaling the afterlife?"

"Of all the wonders that I have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.(Act II, Scene 2)"

"The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about."

"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."

"Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day…"

"I'm going to die whatever you do, but I'm not afraid."