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?

Death isn’t the end, it’s the beginning.

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a...

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our...

His will to live was waning, and it made him almost transparent, as though rather than dying, he might just disappear one day, leaving behind only a vague scent of regret.

We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and...

Unless I’m dead, I’ll definitely be at your funeral. Just be sure to return the favor and show up at mine. Your death will be the death of me, and that is why you should...

Endings are not always bad. Most times they’re just beginnings in disguise.

I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from; I knew where I was going.

They say that war is death’s best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands...

Suicide is very contagious.

Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God’s great dance of proteins.

Take it from an old cadaver. Let go of the past.

There is such a tremendous need for spiritual guidance for those who are facing death, as a patient or with a loved one. Emotions and grief flood everyone involved. There are so many unknown factors....

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

It’s like a lion at the door;And when the door begins to crack,It’s like a stick across you back;And when your back begins to smart,It’s like a penknife in your heart;And when your heart begins...

People who make great impact are well remembered due to the empty seats that remain after their death. It takes time to fill the empty seats that are left unoccupied by people who walked great...

Extreme emotions could be lethal. If I can’t have you nobody will, and so forth. Death could set in.

I’ve got death inside me. It’s just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

I had always thought that life was the actual thing, the natural thing, and that death was simply the end of living. Now, in this lifeless place, I saw with a terrible clarity that death...

When we are faced with circumstances, He gives us the Power to endure! When we are faced with loss, He grants us the Poise to hold on. When we come across failure, He installs back...

The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded...

The bad news is the butcher’s dead. The good news is there’ll be no need for a funeral, and I’ve got enough meat to last for weeks.

Death is one lover who cannot be spurned.

Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

If I could find one wordthat would shudder the airlike that frightened sob,that wordless prayerof my newly-born,who drew one breath,and with unopened eyessank back into death;If I could break the world’s cold heartwith that cry,then...

Dream headline from Orafouraville Times: Man Let Go By Employer, Falls To Death

Did she say anything before she died?” he asked.”Yes,” the surgeon said. “She said, ‘Forgive him'””Forgive him?” my father asked.”I think she was referring to the drunk driver who killed her.”Wow.My grandmother’s last act on...

History has to live with what was here,clutching and close to fumbling all we had -it is so dull and gruesome how we die,unlike writing, life never finishes.