#death-and-dying

"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you."

"... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks."

"Jamie: You know what I figured out today?Landon: What?Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel."

"That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence"

"Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

"The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity."

"There is one invisible bridge for every one of us and death is the first step of it. On this side, there is life where there are questions and fear but on that other side of that bridge, there is a whole new world full of answers and peace."

"I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,and somehow, each of us will help the other live,and somewhere, each of us must help the other die."

"There was no hope in death, only an end."

"I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest."

"Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming."

"If you want me again look for me under your boot soles."

"My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show."

"As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul."

"We feel most alive when we are closest to death."