YOU’RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.That’s what being alive is all about.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the strangest fantasy of them all.

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either...

There’s no justice.”Death sighed. No, he said… there’s just me.

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.

You are so high in the tree.If you jumpyou will live a full lifewhile falling.You will get marriedto a hummingbirdand raise beautiful part- hummingbirds. You will die of cancerin mid-air. I will not lie. It...

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.

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?

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...

I was living my own future and my brother’s lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might...

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…Would you slow down? Or speed up?

I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand – his manly brow / Consents to death, but conquers agony.

When we can’t understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We personify the forces of nature that mystify us, using our boundless imaginations to...

The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.

Life and all that is in it is a gift from the infinite mind / God;And the only way that life can go wrong is by the limited finite mind / Man.

I often think about this, that is, I imagine to myself that here is Vera, dead, totally motionless, lying on the table, in a coffin… and I too, of course can no longer live. But...

Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.

It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were...

Every once in a while, I get the urge. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? The urge for destruction. The urge to hurt, maim, kill. It’s quite a thing, to experience that urge,...

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)

For the funeral I needed a plus one, so I rented a hooker. And then I rented a movie. Rest in peace Grandpa, or whoever you were.

So what is it really like? What happens when people die?” Noor asks Alice Bhatti, who after finishing her shift has changed into a loose maxi and is lying down on a wheelie stretcher, her...

The greatest legacy a father can leave for his children before he departs is PEACE, otherwise his properties will go in PIECES sooner that he dies.

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

Football teams that lost their matches can have many other chances to play in successive seasons; but a soul that is lost through death may not have the chance to justify its potential again!

Nem csak hazai terepen futottam, hanem sokfelé. A levegő áramlásával együtt fogadtam be idegen városokat és tájakat. Ha nem a lábával, hanem a fejével fut az ember, miként Lovelock, akkor a kívánatos izommunka jellegét és...

Me: On time. Love: Late. Death: Early. Seriously, why are you late?

…there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.

That’s it then. This is how it ends. I haven’t even read Proust.

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

must” in mustard. Sadly, the only man alive who understands what I mean is dead. RIP Mitch Ketchup.

I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.

The peace corps looks like peace corpse, and death isn’t a very peaceful thought to me.

Death is my lover and he wants to move in.

I am cursed. Everybody around me dies. It just might take a hundred years for them to do so.

Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children’s literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free of all violence and especially violence with Freudian undertones. Even the Oz books...

Her name was Rose, and I’d hoped that one day our love would blossom like her name. It didn’t, so today it lives on atop a grave.

Death truly does have life, and walks with and lives through us everyday.

She probably thinks I have the clothes of a millionaire. And I do, but they’re still on his body, which is still in the trunk of my car.

I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,The bridal of the earth and sky;The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,For thou must die.

Death is the end of the fear of death. […] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death...

Together they listed the people they had known who had died on the mountains. A bleak conversation to have, thought Margrét, but there was some comfort in talking about death aloud, as though in naming...

What is so often said about the solders of the 20th century is that they fought to make us free. Which is a wonderful sentiment and one witch should evoke tremendous gratitude if in fact...

And yet the cares are many and the hours of toil are few;There is not time enough on earth for all I’d like to do;But, having lived and having toiled, I’d like the world to...