It has taken me four years to figure this out.If we live long enough, we all will experience this.Don’t ever predetermine how you think that you should feel on an anniversary of a tragic event...

For the time being I’ll be a being in time. And when I die, I’ll happily be compost for a greener world.

Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly; without first having to lose one’s life.

Me: On time. Women: Late. Death: Early.

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

You don’t want to come out and celebrate with me tonight? What’s more important than the fact that I just got a job? -My grandpa just died. -Oh, shit. I’m sorry, man. -Oh, no, he’s...

One thing, however, is certain in life. No one survives it.

They should make suitcases shaped like human bodies, for discretely transporting dead cadavers. And I should get a friends and family discount.

The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, ‘One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,’ gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220)

I wasn’t dead, I was asleep. There’s a difference, however slight. That subtle difference is between being a stiff and having a stiffy.

I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to...

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.

Maybe Laney’s right. Maybe June did love me. But I’m far less certain that she knew I loved her. Did she realise how much I needed her around? It’s not like I ever told her....

We walk into the rest of our lives together, not knowing it’ll end before it’s truly started.

A will can save one’s family from being put into a quagmired pit of legal conundrum, in case of death (which may even be untimely).

She said to embrace each change as if it were a small death.

This world rubs me raw, scours me smooth like an SOS pad put to a grease-caked skillet. And pain: it stabs and scrapes and pulls me back to earth, my final B&B, that worm-spun cot...

The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon ‘Hell and Damnation’—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment....

In time, in time they tell me, I’ll not feel so bad. I don’t want time to heal me. There’s a reason I’m like this.I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss...

…You see I believe in that stuff to: yoga and mystical powers. I once knew a man who could kill himself on command. Can you believe that? . . . Why do you laugh? ....

You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me…. You’ll be all right.

Life depends on, how much you’re alive

The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he...

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

Life’s just a sacrifice, a ransomWe pay to Death for Love to save,Which turns to be as great as handsomeTo get a blessing from the grave.

And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star they won’t tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they’re old enough to bear it and when they learn...

Something has spoken to me in the night…and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: “[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you...

That’s the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.

We were soldiers, but even before we were showed how to kill our enemies, they taught us how to kill ourselves.

It has often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

No one should ever die alone. Rejoin the love of the goddess who made you. No longer a man, no longer a human, you must go as only your essence back to She who made...

I have a serious question.””I will give a serious answer.””Can a god be killed?”The humor drained from Roman’s face. “Well, that depends on if you’re a pantheist or a Marxist.””What’s the difference?””The first believes that...

Death is not a deplorable event,It is the journey ‘ s end.

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

When she awakes, she knows where she is. This place, this ancient place sears one’s soul with recognition. ‘Heaven’ seems an inadequate word for it, but that is what it is known as.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

The only sin is the sin of being born

The face of the dead man was concealed, of course, our customs not being those of the south, where corpses are carried to the grave in open coffins, that they might – one last time...

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

game over.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture – it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she’ll die happy. If she lives the way you want her to live, she’ll die miserable. So leave her alone, okay?

I’ll never speak to God again.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me.

There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live.

Phoebe asked me, “Tell me, what do you think of the afterlife?”I was a bit nonplussed. I had no idea what she thought, but I knew that the question must be of greater interest to...

So your High Priest and Sacerdote propose to kill Death.” Edroc

The rest of my days I’m going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I’m going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating...