He knows different now. It’s the living that chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we...

I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes?I...

Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there...

Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.

He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered e-mails, and in the hovel he called home there would still be shirts...

One could argue that it’s romantic to die for love. Of course, then you’re dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a...

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?” he asked. He waited a few minutes, but the three of us didn’t say anything. He continued: “Every...

The next time you hear a person say, ‘I don’t have time’ or ‘I have no time,’ Take a moment to be with them. Without time, that somebody becomes a nobody.

{Yogananda on the death of his dear friend, the eminent 20th century scientist, Luther Burbank}His heart was fathomlessly deep, long acquainted with humility, patience, sacrifice. His little home amid the roses was austerely simple; he...

The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like...

His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do – the best ones. The ones who rise up and say “I know who you are and I am ready. Not that...

To the dismay of those that stood by, about the body of Saruman a grey mist gathered, and rising very slowly to a great height like smoke from a fire, as a pale shrouded figure...

People use the words “beginning” and “end” to describe the start and end of things. However, “beginning” is really the event of coming together when energy gathers, and “end” is simply the dissolution of that...

This is life…Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak–the ones too small or too foolish to fight back–die in...

What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.

Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal. But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that...

He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying...

People can still see you even if you enter the next door. Even if you are dead and gone, they can still see you. What is necessary is whether they see you for the good,...

The unfailing rhythm of the seasons, the ever-turning wheel of life, the four facets of the earth which are lit in turn by the sun, the passing of life–all these filled me once more with...

You can never be too early to stand around and wait. You can have a seat in this chair, after I cinch the noose around my neck and you kick it out from under my...

I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor…When I say this, it should mean laughter,not poison.

Yesterday I saved a baby, a boy, a man, and an old man from death, and all by simply not impregnating anybody. But I don’t consider myself a hero. Merely heroic, and also unable to...

Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.

Her dad died unexpectedly, so I hid the flowers, because flowers are reminders of spring and life, and also of headstones and death. Also, I hid the flowers because they were for another woman.

Study history, Alleluia. In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I mean, these days, character isn’t destiny any more. Economics is destiny. Ideology is destiny. Bombs are destiny....

It is always consoling to think of suicide;it’s what gets one through many a bad night.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with...

My advice is to just ignore the problem until you’re dead. This could be the quickest solution of your life.

I’ve developed into quite a swan. I’m one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older – until I drop dead of beauty.

War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud of. A hand grenade is hurled into a group of men. One of the men...

Spending moments with another in earnest presence is one of the simple ways we can show unconditional love. It is the memories created from these impressions that survive after all else passes.

The bus had one too many people on it (the driver), so all of them had to die. The only thing that saved all those passengers was my love—and the fact that I know how...

We have a long distance to travel,’ said the Angel of Death to our friend Gil, as soon as they had left the Villa. ‘I will order my chariot.’ And he struck the ground with...

I’m fighting a long term disease it’s called Death and I will have it until I take my last breath

If I got a new heart with a heart transplant, I’d be forever grateful. Or at least grateful for the next 50 years or so.

The Clown turned his powdered face to the mirror.”If to be fair is to be beautiful,” he said, “who can compare with me in my white mask?””Who can compare with him in his white mask?”...

This place is Hell’s waiting room.

Enjoy every second—even if at first you only win second. Keep competing until all your competition has died of old age and you are the winner by default.

Um…” Hazel faltered. “You mean you won’t… you’re not going to-” “Claim your life?” Thantos asked. “Well, let’s see…” He pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death, tapped the screen a few times, and...

I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help an old woman, proving for all eternity that no good deed goes unpunished.

When we face death with hope, we can live life with generosity.

…a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes–for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one’s life.

Cine sunt eu? Nici măcar o umbră…

His crucifixion is the key; His resurrection is the door… it is only by his death that we have the mandate to enter into the gates of eternal life. His doors are open always. Christ...

It’s gonna hurt, now,” said Amy. “anything dead coming back to life hurts.

We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.

And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion...

Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but death and taxes. But that’s not really true. There’s really only death, you...