death

"Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet."

"I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'."

"...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going."

"Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life."

"It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear."

"Live or die, but don't poison everything."

"Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living."

"And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried."

"What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence."

"I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street"

"Here lies a gentleman boldWho was so very braveHe went to lengths untold,And on the brink of the graveDeath had on him no hold.By the world he set small store--He frightened it to the core--Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,Though he'd lived a crazy man,When he died he was sane once more."

"Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them."

"Asking me if I’m in love is like asking a mortician if now is the best time to die."

"I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days."

"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?"

"So,"he asked. "How's death?""Hard,"she said. "It just keeps going."

"I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral."

"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die,To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!"

"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."

"God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment."