#death

"Chlorophylia [10w] + {Couplet} Few things amaze as the paletteof the autumn blaze."

"God is dead and I am his replacement."

"I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly."

"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world."

"Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters."

"When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty."

"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."

"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend."

"Soup [10w] Never marry anyone who eats their soup with a ladle."

"Thorn [5w] Every thorn has its rose."

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

"Democracy, Really [10w] A democracy is free to replace one tyranny with another."

"But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever."

"I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night."

"At the moment of death I hope to be surprised."

"Gained in Translation [10w] In timeless truths there's more gained than lost in translation."

"After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled."

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."

"Got Hate? When a hater cozily whispers shit in your ear about them,what does that say about you?"