I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn’t live long. It’s simply not written in my stars.

I never understood why when you died, you didn’t just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn’t be there. I always thought I’d like my own tombstone...

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Why is it deemed justifiable and appropriate for cops/policeofficers to kill other cops (friendly–fire) and citizens?Why do cops kill?Are they not taught to maim or slow down someone runningor reaching for a weapon?If not, why...

Recollection of death also serves as a useful preparation for the time when one actually has to face death. As the concluding exercise among the body contemplations, a regular recollection of death can lead to...

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don’t want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I’ve been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am...

To die on a dying Earth – I’d live, if only to weep.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.

In the end, the only thing that really matters is how we treated all living things.

He is not prone to remember evils, since it is proper to a magnanimous person not to nurse memories, especially not of evils, but to overlook them. He does not speak evil even of his...

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

It’s a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man’s life dies as a commotion in a...

Don’t be so hard on yourself, don’t put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you’ll be perfect when you’re dead.

A farewell to my shadow is not my death; it’s my rebirth in darkness.

Have you ever wondered why we bury and cremate our dead? Nothing to do with hygiene, it’s just so we don’t have to see the reality of death. You know, the Zoroastrians used to leave...

Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces.

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.

Fate doesn’t care about family. When the time is up, she nicks at the thread

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you’re living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.

Anna: Ash, I don’t have anything planned with my Mother… She’s dead.Ashley: What?Anna: She died when I was seven. She drowned. It’s just my Dad and me. I didn’t tell you before because I just...

Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he’d both created and destroyed his body’s energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing...

Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothing in the...

How terrible,” said Eragon, “to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you.”Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed...

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi

We can’t be sad for her,” she murmured. “Only for ourselves at having to say good-bye.

We do not have to see the beginning and the end of our lives, but we must close our eyes and live as if we didn’t start or would never end.

I recognized my work for what it was–as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If we are extinguished by death, as I still try to believe, what point...

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Kula sana kunaweza kusababisha virutubisho kuzidi mwilini zaidi ya kiwango kinachohitajika na mwili, ambavyo baadaye vinaweza kusababisha madhara ya papo kwa hapo kama tumbo kuuma au tumbo kujaa gesi! Baada ya muda mrefu wingi wa...

Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

I know you’re hurting, Taylor, but grief is clouding your judgement and you need to stay focused. If you attack her now, you won’t win. You know she has the advantage, Taylor. I’ve taught you...

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

The first kiss is the deepest.””The last breath is the hardest.

Halloween season. The season of the witch, so many thought. And, in legend, the night when souls could return to earth…And try to linger on.But the dead weren’t really returning, the living created evil.

Death is a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

With mind distracted, never thinking, “Death is coming,”To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,And then to come out empty–it is a tragic error. (116)trans by Robert Thurman

The Kikuyu, when left to themselves, do not bury their dead, but leave them above ground for the hyenas and vultures to deal with. The custom had always appealed to me, I thought that it...

How do I appear unthreatening when her lover’s blood is running down my chin?

When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I’ll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the...

Ashamed, shrugging a little, and then shivering, he took his bags and went out. The cold of the air seemed to lift him bodily. The moon was in the sky.On the slope he began to...

I don’t know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn’t know then I can’t put into words.

It is good that a man’s enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.

Living is like being chained at the bottom of a shallow pond with my eyes open and no air. I can see distorted images of happiness and light, even hear muffled laughter, but everything is...

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?