death

"Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death."

"Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"

"Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning."

"You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live."

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

"Some people grow vegetables by day, but I grow shadows by night. Right now my only customer is the US government, but the profit is unbelievable."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"لا أخاف الموت ..أخاف أن أموت قبل أن أحيا"

"...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."

"A stick won’t stick to a wall, so why is it called a stick? Likewise, why aren’t love and ghost the same word? Both are dead and invisible."

"Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality."

"You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew."

"***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die."

"Death is harder on those who are left behind."

"Summertime is always the best of what might be."

"Death is just the last scene of the last act."

"We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?"asked Piglet."Even longer,"Pooh answered."

"It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling."

"Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning."

"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded."