If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

The sunken grave would fade away, probably in my lifetime. If I could avoid killer zombies for a few years. And vampires. And gun-toting humans. Oh, hell, the hot-spot would probably outlast me.

They are both spectacular, Life and death.

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.

Got it. Demon. Death. Doom.

MY MOTHER GETS DRESSEDIt is impossible for my mother to do eventhe simplest things for herself anymoreso we do it together,get her dressed.I choose the clothes withoutzippers or buckles or straps,clothes that are simplebut elegant,...

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his...

All things left her, allBut one. Her highborn courtlinessAccompanied her to the end,Beyond the rapture and its eclipse,In a way like an angel’s. Of ElviraThe first thing that I saw – such years ago -Was...

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me.

Is there life before death?

The letter said that they were two feet high, and green., and shaped like plumber’s friends. Their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to the sky....

Shall a mangrave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them onthe water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my day, and grow old with mygeneration, and die my appointed...

Now that her spirit had left, I’d thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of the body and not the other way around.

It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

Tiek uzskatīts, ka pēc apkaušanas jāvalda kapa klusumam, un valda jau arī, tikai putni klaigā.

Meaning. If you’re going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

You can’t argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

Mad Eye’ Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: “Not nice,” he said calmly. “Not pleasant. And there’s no counter curse. There’s no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he’s sitting...

In the days after my heart attack & before I began to write again, all I could think about was dying. I’d been spared again, and only after the danger had passed did I allow...

Destiny, if I could sit across the porch from God, I’d thank Him for Lending me you…..

They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space–atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there forever, from the whole world, from...

No hizo falta mucho para reducir el castillo de naipes de la civilización. Solo unas pocas ráfagas y pasó, la balanza se inclinó, se rompió el encanto. Los buenos ciudadanos se dieron cuenta de que...

Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I’m there for all of them.

She knew for a fact that she wasn’t going to sit around and wait for some miracle to happen. She wasn’t going to watch the storm in front of her and pretend like nothing had...

Love doesn’t always mean rings and veils and walks down the aisle.Sometimes love means broken windows and broken hearts,and not being able to fix either. And sometimes love means telling you, there’s no such thing...

Time erodes us all.

A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child’s kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. “Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us.” We move closer, and when I reached for...

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love– nothing, now, but bones.

Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.

But we have, if not our understanding, our own experience, and it feels to me sealed, inviolable, ours. We have a last, deep week together, because Wally is not on morphine yet, because he has...

Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even thought I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part...

The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is ‘success’ in mourning?

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first...

For a long time, my subconscious rested in a dark place, ticking through memories like a jukebox selecting a record…

Sleep is a shallow death we practice every night.

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

1. The desperate Jews – their spirits in my lap as we sat on the roof, next to the steaming chimneys.2. The Russian soldiers – taking only small amounts of ammunition, relying on the fallen...

The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die. Lack of knowledge is the fundamental principle for killing “alive and kicking” dreams.

sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.

Just as I am watching a tongue of blue flame rising in the fire, and my lamp is burning low, the horrible contraction will begin in my chest. I shall only have time to reach...

It’s better to burn out than to fade away.

Lebih banyak orang menghadapi kematian di atas tempat tidur daripada orang yang mati di atas pesawat. Tetapi kenapa lebih banyak orang yang takut mati ketika menaiki pesawat daripada orang yang takut menaiki tempat tidur.More people...

A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I’ll sell them for a dollarThey’re worth so much more after I’m a gonerAnd maybe then you’ll hear the words I been singin’Funny when you’re dead how people...

The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the steep glide began, people rose, fell, collided, swam in their seats....