#death

"Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down."

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."

"Hatred is a Simple Child Hatred is a simple child nurtured and coddled in a raging heart and then released into a crowd of innocents wearing a suicide vest."

"How Much Space? {Couplet} Give a lover space enough to rejoice in their choice,but not enough room for their doubts to give voice."

"This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness."

"Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel."

"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."

"A statue stands in a shaded placeAn angel girl with an upturned faceA name is written on a polished rockA broken heart that the world forgot"

"Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you."

"Mongolian, Temeenii'malgai The small fuzzy hat worn by camels that cross the Gobi desert. Usually stolen by natives of Ulaanbaatar for the groom's hat at weddings. The fuzz on the hat smells so bad that the groom is temporarily blinded and can't see how ugly the bride looks until it's too late."

"Relatively Speaking [10w] The irony about 'relativism theories' is that they're relative too."

"Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey."

"Political Strategists Avoids the Controversial [10w] Politicians win by pandering to the base of shared assumptions."

"Great Poets [10w] Great poets can milk blood and tears from a stone."

"Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do."

"Nature's Prayer [10w] + {Couplet} Trees gesticulate in morning prayer;wind circulates with cleansing air."

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"

"Prickly Pears [10w] Men are often like cactus fruits ~thorny outside,mushy inside."

"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"

"We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us"