#death

"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?"

"Infinite Promise The carrot of infinite promise always dangles just inches beyond our noses.The trick is to surreptitiously switch that carrot for a zucchini."

"Don't fear the gods,Don't worry about death;What is good is easy to get, andWhat is terrible is easy to endure."

"The Jewish NOW There's no time like the present ~but in the future,who can say?"

"Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things."

"Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong."

"Poets Job Description [10w] Poets console the soul with words and eyes with images."

"Who is Fortunate? [10w] Who is fortunate?He who measures his fortune in friends."

"And after a while...I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed."

"No-brainers [10w] No-brainers are challenging enough for people with no fucking brains."

"Past/Present/Future I have no problem living in the present,but because of my pastpeople want to kill me in the future."

"Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death."

"Memories [10w] Spend half your life creating memories,the other half, remembering."

"I think eulogies are wasted on the dead. It’s the living who need to hear kind words spoken about them."

"Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all."

"Darkness Darkness is a decision the light cannot dissuade."

"O, hereWill I set up my everlasting rest,And shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFrom this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O youThe doors of breath, seal with a righteous kissA dateless bargain to engrossing death!"

"Vacations for Souls [10w] When souls are bored in Heaven they vacation in Hell."

"Knocked-Up Kinda' Loven Marry, me, marry me, marry me,You better say, 'affirmative',Cuz you stuck a bun in my ovenand you haven't an alternative."

"Two Dust Storms or A Nice Pair of Haboobs A palm tree passes through a sandstorm, shakingoff the dusty rain like a wet dogon the less fortunate wayfarersburied in the sand."