Life doesn’t walk away, we do.

Y al final dejó el horror de esta vida para entrar en el horror de la muerte.

Death is a lot like prom – loud, overdone, and although the guy you came with was cool, you never know who’ll end up taking you home.

I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed...

People’s most common regret was living the life others expected of them, rather than having the courage to live a life true to themselves, and realising some dreams had gone unfulfilled as a result.

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn’t any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and...

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

Do all the work you can, there is enough rest in the grave.

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that thereare some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they areworth dying for. And if a person has not found...

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there’s no use continuing such behavior when you’re dead.

Quoting Father Seraphim:Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you...

Fear is always death. Faith is life. Have faith and your victory is assured.

That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passion. Their effusion of words, unable to escape through the Saturnian discipline of lead, so filled the spaces...

Nothing is ever certain.

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

Of all the ways I had imagined my death, getting beaten by my zombified mentor while trapped by a cannibalistic window handle wasn’t one of them

Death is the destiny of every man. Why do people fight over power and material wealth.We brought nothing into the world, certainly, we will take nothing out of the world.

After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Marvin: – La necrofilia ce l’abbiamo sepolta dentro. Uno dei miei libri, Storia della tortura e della morte, parla delle atrocità che abbiamo commesso in nome della giustizia e della vendetta. Spesso erano peggiori dei...

TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it’s fine because you are damaged.

Everyone you have ever loved in your life becomes a part of your soul. They never leave. They’re always inside you, and you can bring them out whenever you want.

But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You’re not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are Spirit, you are...

Shinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to die. The memento of his beloved uncle–the earring worn by...

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. But they had not. When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he...

One of my biggest fears is that I’m going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

I know the moment you died,Jesus’ face was smiling on you,Welcoming you into His glorious city of gold. I know you are enjoying the incredible light and peace of His presence right now

Then I looked at myself in the mirror. I was proud of myself, of my entire life, of everything I have done. It was the BEST feeling… I didn’t want to leave that place. I...

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?—“On death

there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe...

Another thing we can learn to do is to be more grateful for every day we have with our children. None of us ever knows how long we have on Earth, so it is imperative...

the price of creationis nevertoo high.the price of livingwith other peoplealwaysis.

Only those who will love longer than they expected to can truly love pecan pie, which doesn’t explain its status as death rows most requested last dessert, or why chopped pecans, corn syrup, directions from...

sometimes it’s hard to knowwhat todo.

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.

What’s the point of keeping in touch with the girl you’re crazy about, when you’re dying?

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

We don’t know why God chose to deliver Peter from death and James through death. The text doesn’t say.

Love is a wound,” the assassin said. ” Neither life nor death.

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If...

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn’t dead.

How I adore you, Marya. How well I chose. Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don’t leave me.

Seventy years of life is nothing in front of a single day of death

People’re always buried facing west, so at the end of time when the Last Trumpet blows, all the dead people’ll claw their way up and walk due west to the throne of Jesus to be...

Conner hadn’t liked leaving the gravesite with his father still not buried. But he’d learned from his grandmother’s funeral that you have to go. It’s expected. Nobody hangs around the cemetary. Grief—a little or a...