There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don’t care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just… survive. Outlive me, please.

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.

Sorry doesn’t make anything better. It’s just a word to fill the space of a loss of words.

Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything…away.

The money opens many doors. That of the coffin, among other things. (L’argent ouvre de nombreuses portes. – Celle du cercueil, entre autres.)

Last breath is rare, therefore expensive. However, we prefer to stay poor … (Dernier soupir est rare, donc cher. – Pourtant, on préfère rester pauvre…)

Thank God,my name isn’t in the list of thosewho died or werekilled yesterday!

May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

All stones are close to us. The last is behind us. (Toutes les pierres sont près de nous. – La dernière est derrière nous.)(The Bird and its Sun / L’Oiseau et son Soleil)

The autumn leaf falls faster than the trees grow faster. (La feuille d’automne descend plus vite – Que les arbres ne grandissent plus vite.)

It was nice to kill time. But the time buries us before… (On a beau tuer le temps, – Il nous enterre avant)

Death lasts only a moment, but we think about it every moment. (La mort ne dure qu’un instant, – Mais on y pense chaque instant)

Of all the many people we meet in a lifetime,it is strange that so many of us find ourselves in thrall to one particular person. Once that face is seen,an involuntary heartache sets in for which there is no cure. All the wonder of this world finds shape in that one person and thereafter there...

It’s a cruel fact of war that it takes little more than applying pressure to one finger to end another person’s life. More than that, it’s a cruel fact of life that we are hardwired to follow the crowd in a moment of panic.

Believe that you are someone worth saving.

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. … Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that...

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.

We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d’y voir notre linceul)

This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Makhluk kecil kembalilah. Dari tiada ke tiada. Berbahagialah dalam ketiadaanmu.

Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change is a shock; every shock is a pro tanto death....

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

What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end...

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of...

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Cast a cold eyeOn life, on deathHorseman, pass by!

He could not stand. It was not that he could not thrive, he was born with everything but the will — that can be deformed, just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention.

What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won’t embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish to follow Christ. Listen to His teaching. ‘Unless you become like a child…and unless you...

Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power.

Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be.

A gardin is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death

Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I’ve ever heard of to die.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

Every moment, many are born and many die. But man has to discover how to ‘avoid’ death.

Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death.

The cold is a lonely person’s way to feel alone and death.

When she awakes, she knows where she is. This place, this ancient place sears one’s soul with recognition. ‘Heaven’ seems an inadequate word for it, but that is what it is known as.

But maybe life was like that: it held your death, waiting, and you had no choice but to walk toward it if you wanted a life.

Believe me, Doctor, if your life ends in suddenness you will be glad it did, and if it does not you will wish it had. You will want suddenness, Doctor.

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?

No one should ever die alone. Rejoin the love of the goddess who made you. No longer a man, no longer a human, you must go as only your essence back to She who made you, into the womb of the Great Mother. You have again become a seed that will form into other lives...

We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can’t wash it off.

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering...

The most important thing that is happening in the world right now is the emerging of the new man.Since the monkeys, man has remained the same, but a great revolution is on it’s way. When monkeys became man, it created the mind. With the new man, a great revolution will bring the soul in. Man...

Once someone asked me, “What do you want to be your epitaph?” So I said, “Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

I wanted to listen to him, but I did not want to answer now. That strange responsibility we feel towards others when they speak, to offer them the solace of any answer. Poor humans! And anyway he had not asked a question. He was merely floating there in the room, insubstantial, a living man in...

Death gives advance notice of his arrival to take you notice in the form of grey hair, falling teeth, failing vision, folding of the skin etc.