death is an escape from rude realty for a while

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to...

We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it...

Death is not the end of life but the beginning of eternal life.

If I knew I was going to die, I’d do the things on my life list. Why not do them now?

Did you get notes for me?””No”, Ronan replied,”I thought you were dead in a ditch.

If with pleasure you are viewingAny work a man is doing;If you like him or you love him, tell him now.Don’t withhold your approbationTill the preacher makes orationAnd he lies with snowy lilies o’er his...

Contrary to what a lot of people believe (or hope), comfort doesn’t take the pain away. Comfort slides in beside the pain, pulling up a chair so that we have something more than sorrow in...

Madoka: Won’t anyone notice that Mami-san is dead?Homura: Mami Tomoe’s only relatives are distant relations. It will be quite some time before anyone files a missing persons report. When one dies on that side of...

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England’s.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may...

The real hell of this,” he told her, “is that you’re going to get through it.

Mendacity is a system that we live in,” declares Brick. “Liquor is one way out an’death’s the other.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

We are all resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.

El silencio de la muerte es el peor de los silencios, porque el silencio rulfiano es un silencio aceptado y el rimbaudiano es un silencio buscado, pero el silencio de la muerte es el que...

He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, ‘I am not afraid.

For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person (on Margaret Thatcher)

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

Yes, and our sister’s sons are candid now about a creepy business which used to worry them a lot: They cannot find their mother or their father in their memories anywhere – not anywhere. The...

Caught between life and death, I clung to life.

I reached into the pile and pulled out a few connected chips and then was about to shove them into my mouth, when I saw what appeared to be the face of an angel sitting...

I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave

After a lifetime of wanting to be loved, she didn’t think she could bear it if it finally happened just before she was about to die.

Then out spake brave Horatius, / The Captain of the Gate: / `To every man upon this earth / Death cometh soon or late. / And how can man die better / Than facing fearful...

Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.

The actuality of us being cognizant and accepting of the fact we are but a speck of sand in a universe sized desert, whose existence is irrelevant to any facet of universal function is a...

Sometimes it’s your fragrance that comes to me, out of the blue, on a crowded road in a Sunday afternoon.But more often, it’s memories of us that cross my mind almost every lone evening.All I...

A girl is just like a movie, you want to know what happends next, and how it will end…

There is an old saying that goes ‘Start by plucking a hair, end by killing a man’. It is also said, ‘Two hands must meet to make a sound’. The atrocities that happened here weren’t...

One of life’s great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

Potkraj Drugoga svjetskog rata izvukli su me iz škole i, kao šesnaestogodišnjaka, gurnuli u vojsku. Nakon kratke vojničke izobrazbe u würzburškim kasarnama došao sam na frontu koja se u to vrijeme već bila pomakla preko...

Maybe eventually winter will finish our job for us and end the world in ice instead of blood.

Caught in the center of a soundless fieldWhile hot inexplicable hours go byWhat trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed?You seem to ask.I make a sharp reply,Then clean my stick. I’m glad I can’t...

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There’s a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

Neighbours complaining about someone’s dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn’t been much left of...

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair…Consider, Arren. To refuse...

Political prisoners describe:- extreme physical and emotional torture- distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality- sham killings- begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened with death- being forced to witness abusive acts...

Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else.Thank you, Confucious.

Death twitches my ear;’Live,’ he says… ‘I’m coming.

Fear envelops bones like new skin,envelops blood with night’s skin,the earth moves beneath the soles of the feet -it is not your hair but the terror in your head,like long hair made of vertical nails,and...

Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

Better a live dog than a dead lion.

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well.” Where did I hear that? It doesn’t matter. There is a village in my head.

Do we fear death or that of arriving at its door before we are ready?

As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing.

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

Song after Battle:As the young men went by I was looking for him. It surprises me anew That he has gone. It is something To which I cannot be reconciled.Owls hoot at me. Owls hoot...