Toute fin de vie quelconque s’apparente plus ou moins au rangement; on n’a plus envie de se lancer dans un projet neuf, on se contente d’expédier les affaires courantes. Toute chose que l’on n’a jamais...

On his deathbed, my grandpa told me three things to remember for after he died. First he said, “You can’t own a cat. Ever.” Second he told me, “Friendly boys make friendly friends.” Finally he...

I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.

They were mostly French, a few Arabs, and despite their uniforms they didn’t look very important any more. Later I learned that if you watch men die, especially if you’ve known them at all, they...

I once had a complete life – in love, in envy, in pains. Now, I was living a death. A peaceful, gorgeous, liberating death.

If you don’t know yourself, you may easily blow away opportunities meant for your success! Know who you are made of and save your dreams from premature death!

As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly ‘I have seen the glories of the world.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

The LakeIn spring of youth it was my lotTo haunt of the wide world a spotThe which I could not love the less-So lovely was the lonelinessOf a wild lake, with black rock bound,And the...

He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we...

It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently sucking my brains out through my ear while trying to...

When you are fed with the spoon of betrayal, you can choose to spit it out and live or swallow it and die

Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity,...

Como siempre, la consideración de su muerte lo serenaba tanto como lo turbaba la muerte de los demás. Tal vez porque, a fin de cuentas, su muerte era el final del mundo.

I’ll follow you, even to death—but I won’t live with you any more.

I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

…you’re either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.

It wasn’t his, it wasn’t my fault,we both had nothing except patience,but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!)and I watched him as he took and took:none of it I could claim as...

She surveyed the carnage behind him. “Did you have fun?”He showed her his teeth. “Yes.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

Objects and ObjectivesTo contemplate LEGO. Many colours. Many shapes. Many inventive and useful shapes. Plastic. A versatile and practical substance. Symbolic of the resourcefulness of man. Oil taken from the depths of the very earth....

Stay,” he said abruptly. “Stay, feed me. Read to me, if you like. Do not talk to me of death. Do not offer me your fear. I have fear of my own to drive me,...

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not...

What we call life…is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. Every moment they are...

I will not just love you till death.I will love you for eternity,this life and the next.

People those enjoy life never thought about death and those thought about death never enjoy life.

Then one morning she’d begun to feel her sorrow easing, like something jagged that had cut into her so long it had finally dulled its edges, worn itself down. That same day Rachel couldn’t remember...

When my grandpa died, I had this same fear. I love Grandpa so much. He was Mom’s dad, and he was my favorite person in the whole world. He lived up north, between Grayling and...

The morgue is a Victorian update of a system established by Alfred the Great. It’s the place where certain deaths are resolved – those where the cause is unclear or is the result of some...

One false step, and you’ll fall all the way to Tartarus—and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a one-way trip, a very hard fall! I will not have you dying before...

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not...

She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show), she was Veena’s love of music, Pran’s asthma, Maan’s generosity, the survival of some refugees four...

The Line welcomed rain and sun. Seeds germinated in mass graves, between skulls and femurs and broken pick handles, tendrils rose up alongside dog spikes and clavicles, thrust around teak sleepers and tibias, scapulas, vertebrae,...

Death is the privilege of human natureAnd life without it were not worth our takingThither the poor, the unfortunate, and MournerFly for relief & lay their burdens down.

A child, obeying his father and mother, goes wherever he is told, east or west, south or north. And the yin and yang – how much more are they to a man than father or...

Our kind, we don’t leave many traces behind in this world.

When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: “Why?” He replied: “Because no one admired me.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue….No taste or smell or touch...

God is not someone you meet when you die. His smiling face will be the first and the most familiar to greet you on the other side of mortality. You’ll recognize Him and know in...

They called our arrangement a ‘Death Pact’ – but, really, that’s not a phrase that tells you anything important. It’s just the kind of phrase that sells newspapers. For us, it was never about death....

What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?

The people who matter most in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They’re with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up...

That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.

I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place – death.

Grief reunites you with what you’ve lost. It’s a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that’s going away. You follow it a far as you can go.But finally,the grief goes away and...

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death…