#death

"Ageing [10w] There's no such thing as age -- only degrees of opacity."

"Because the plan God has for each of our lives isn't always the same plan we have for ourselves, Grace. Sometimes, our deaths have more of an impact than our births. It can inspire people to do great things, even greater than they would have had the deaths not happened at all."

"Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses endurate. Both go mouldy."

"Origami Master If you're the greatest origami master in the worldmaybe I can find you a job folding napkins at a restaurant.I'm not making any promises."

"You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night."

"Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever."

"If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship."

"I love you,"he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die."

"He's waiting for yu, young queen.'Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?'The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak."

"The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death."

"And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive."

"Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is."

"Nursing Homes [10w] Nursing homes are house haunted by the living and half-dead."

"Cormorant’s Flight [10w] The cormorant’s flight is the first shadow of the wave."

"Perfection [10w] If you've attained perfection,then what's the point of living?"

"Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground."

"He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again."

"Rhyme vs. Reason {Couplet} Do not try to make rhyme of reason,nor reason of rhyme;For the former's too systematic,the latter's too sublime."

"Clairol 2: Hair color so natural only her hairdresser knows for sure... ...but he's gay and already Tweeted it to 300 people."

"Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion."