#death

"It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss."

"It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life."

"Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation."

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

"We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day."

"Madness [10w] Madness isn't an objective state,it is a cultural bias."

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

"Sink or Swim [10w] Lovers master the breaststroke, the crawl and the muff dive."

"I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying."

"Poets Be Realists! Poets be realists!It's O.K. to keep your jobs ~just don't quit your day dreams."

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

"I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it."

"Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?"

"War [10w] When leaders threaten war,they’re breaking dirt on our graves."

"With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me."

"Illinois State Motto State sovereignty, national union.Life begins and ends with corruption."

"Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill."

"Boasting vs. Toasting [10w] + {Couplet} What many call boasting to my success I call toasting."

"Got it. Demon. Death. Doom."

"Wine [10w] American wines tasting as good as French wines are presumptuous."