#death

"No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping."

"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"Regret [10w] Regret's more about lost opportunities than about paths we've chosen."

"Poetry Should Dance [10w] Let poetry dance ~neither outpace it nor let it lag."

"And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have."

"I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped."

"After your death, you will be what you were before your birth."

"Do you wanna play? Everyone's dead, so I got bored. Did you come to play with me?--Wrath"

"If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine."

"I make love like I make coffins—with my bare hands, alone in my garage. On sale through Thursday—Buy One Funeral, Get A Second One Free!"

"For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die."

"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."

"Melting Icicles Haiku Drip, drip, Drip, drip, Drip:Sounds of melting iciclesannouncing the Spring"

"The 'Ugly' Poet [10w] Poets develop cleverness with wordsto compensate for their unattractiveness."

"Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around."

"And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief;"

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

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

"Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and who will stand by my Constanze, if you do not stay?"

"the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life."