death

"I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call."

"Where music thundered let the mind be still,Where the will triumphed let there be no will,What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill."

"I thought of you and how you love this beauty,And walking up the long beach all aloneI heard the waves breaking in measured thunderAs you and I once heard their monotone.Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond meThe cold and sparkling silver of the sea --We two will pass through death and ages lengthenBefore you hear that sound again with me."

"If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul."

"The death of dogma is the birth of morality."

"You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road."

"Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected."

"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."

"Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects."

"Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?"

"Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was."

"...Matt. I didn't think they'd kill you... I'm so sorry..."

"Ah, music,"he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"

"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"There is some delight in ale and wineAnd some in girls with ankles fineBut my delight, yes always mineIs to dance with Jak O’ the ShadowsWe will toss the dice however they fallAnd snuggle the girls be they short or tallThen follow Lord Mat whenever he callsTo dance with Jak O’ the Shadows."

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

"Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?"

"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die"--- and find that there is no death."

"Your love story, I don’t want to give away the ending, but both you and your lover die."

"You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead."