We have talked about Suzy and about her last days, but it’s as if our lives stopped then and there. If I say anything to him about feeling lonesome, he goes outside and does some...

Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his. His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man – all man, from his crown to...

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.

As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror.

I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

Death’s Diary: 1942 -It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to just name a few. Forget the scythe, God damn it, I needed a broom or a mop. And I needed...

And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which...

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

Anything which is just born, which has just come into existence, has no past behind it. Birth, in other words, is the condition of having no past. And likewise, anything which now dies, which has...

I was such a messed up person and he was still holding on.

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

… And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

For your birthday I got you some batteries. They’re dead, just like you’ll soon be.

Sometimes dead is better

The experience of death is going to get more and more painful, contrary to what many people believe. The forthcoming euthanasia will make it more rather than less painful because it will put the emphasis...

I think eulogies are wasted on the dead. It’s the living who need to hear kind words spoken about them.

Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.I knew I must die,...

No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship....

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

Welcome to vampire-ville.” He chuckled.

≫Koma. I resten af…≪ Mortimer kastede et hurtigt blik på timeglasset, ≫hans liv. Hvilket vil være evigt, nu da terningen er væk. Død, men ikke død. Levende, men ikke levende. Kan du se, hvor skræmmende...

I do not agree with what you have to say, but at your death I’ll defend what you rightfully should have said.

Eternal love doesn’t mean till you die, its what you call eternity, it could be a few days, heck a few hours, but its worth every second

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

We can be anything we want to be in this life. And I’d like to be you. But there can’t be two of us, so I’m afraid you’ll have to be eliminated. You have become...

I don’t know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. You can bet I’m going to make this day count! Will you?

Sleeping is terrifying.When you close your eyes and surrender your consciousness to the void, you lose yourself—voluntarily—and you’re trustingly assuming you’ll find yourself back out of the labyrinth again.Usually you do.But sometimes you don’t.It’s that...

Some people sleep their lives away. But I also want to sleep death away. If I sleep long enough, maybe death will think I’m already dead and pass me by.

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!

The police made sure he wasn’t dead. Then they killed him.

Loss, once it’s become a certainty, is like a rock you hold in your hand. It has weight and dimension and texture. It’s solid and can be assessed and dealt with. You can use it...

When I recall memories, it all seems like a film, not a reality.

Her cold, dead body was as stiff as a mannequin, but that didn’t stop me from asking her to dance. I was confident that even as a corpse she’d still have more fluidity on the...

Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated...

He’d learned something. Life was booby-trapped and there was no easy passage through. You had to jump from colour to colour, from happiness to happiness. And all those possible explosions in between. It could be...

Death, the great What if.” I dreamt this, but that doesn’t make it any less what iffier.

Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

I can only think of one good reason not to kill you: because if I killed you, I’d have to bury you, and that means shoveling. And I hate shoveling almost as much as I...

Many are called, few are chosen.

The people inside the gym didn’t stand a dead drunk’s chance.

A Parting GuestWhat delightful hosts are they—Life and Love!Lingeringly I turn away,This late hour, yet glad enoughThey have not withheld from meTheir high hospitality.So, with face lit with delightAnd all gratitude, I stayYet to press...

Conflicting stories continue to circulate concerning the death of the President. A second White House announcement has now called attention to the President’s schedule for the day, pointing out that no mention is made there...

Don’t wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

It’s when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I’d assassinated, that I unravel inside.

Life is the tragedy,’ she said bitterly. ‘You know how they categorize Shakespeare’s plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it’s a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it’s a tragedy. So...

Never trust a man who teaches about death but yet had no real experience at all about it.

If your are an expatriate, a ‘will’ is required because, the laws of the country in which you reside would be different from that of your home country, and when the inevitable (death) occurs (untimely),...