I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such...

Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry—and mostly likely to wipe away my tears.

“Holy shit, I’m going to die!” Sorry, I just turned thirty yesterday, so my mortality is on my mind.

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen...

I have thought carefully on how to leave this world, and I have concluded that I should exit the same way I entered: through a vagina. But not my mother’s.

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds; it also kills all the healed.

If politicians lived to be only 30-years-old before dying, that’d still be 30 years too long.

The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, ‘Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your...

Death has this much to be said for it:You don’t have to get out of bed for it.Wherever you happen to beThey bring it to you—free.

Death is like bedtime—we all want to put it off until tomorrow. But when you’re going to bed, I’m just getting up, Lazarus style.

I’m sorry, Mamma,” I whisper to the shell in front of me. I take her hand. It could belong to a glass doll. There’s no life there anymore. So I gather rocks, one by one,...

There was this movie that I would watch with her all the time, some stupid chick flick, and it had this opening line that would always make her catch her breath. ‘I remember it hurt....

It’s a new subject to me, and I’m just starting to get confused. The middle is the muddle, and the end is enlightenment. The subject is love, and the end is death.

Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the...

His absence is so big it’s like he’s there.

There was an eerie quiet about last night, like death sleeping on the beach of Lake Erie. I woke up with sand in my shoes and tiny coffins on my feet.

You were free, you are free and you will be free.

Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that’s a mere .000625 percent of them. I wonder who among you wants to be judged on...

That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most...

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

I believe that there is something connecting us … Something that was here before we got here and will still be here after we’re gone. I’ve begun to believe that all of our consciousnesses are...

There is nothing for you in this bleak hospital room but a cold and empty nothingness that has no answers, can give no peace, will provide no comfort to the living.

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse.

I’m going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

Exit is a letter away from Exist.A part, just a space away from Apart.

Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.

Even after death such deeds are remembered and recalled.

Midnight”The hours glide Like drops of water on a window pane Midnight silence Fear unrolls in the air And the wind hides at the bottom of the well OH It’s a leaf We think the...

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Death Ship”)

Rest in Peace?’ Why that phrase? That’s the most ridiculous phrase I’ve ever heard! You die, and they say ‘Rest in Peace!’ …Why would one need to ‘rest’ when they’re dead?! I spent thousands of...

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

People twenty-five and up just sat around waiting to die. That was what I’d thought.So while I was waiting to die, I looked at bras. The last thing on my mind was comfort. It seemed...

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too...

I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime’s independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke...

Je préfère mourir debout que vivre à genoux. (I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees.)

Once to swim I sought the sea-side,There to sport among the billows;With the stone of many colorsSank poor Aino to the bottomOf the deep and boundless blue-sea,Like a pretty son-bird, perished.Never come a-fishing, father,To the...

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,So do our minutes hasten to their end;Each changing place with that which goes before,In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it...

I once met a traveler who told me he would live to see the end of time. He laid out all his vitamins before me and told me he slept seven hours every night, no...

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

I have every reason to be sad, but I don’t have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has ended tonight. One of us has simply gone ahead as we always knew...

Plans never go as planned, ever; that’s just how life is. People spend way too much time dreaming about a future they should be having more nightmares warning them against. But that doesn’t mean you...

Spiritual practice is allowing the temple (your body) to be full of light and to live life as a total celebration.

Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.