Loss taught me. It taught me that I won’t have people around me forever. The good I need to do to someone today, I may not have the opportunity to do tomorrow.

I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground… And so are you. So are we all.

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he’s gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death; and fight for hope through despair to possess the will to live.

I’d never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.

Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. “A brief life seems pointless.”Tristan thought for a moment. “Isn’t that what life is, though? A brief...

To what do I owe the pleasure of your company?” he said.I placed my hands flat on the table and leaned across it. “Stay the hell away from him.””Who? Oh, you mean the guy who’s...

He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.

I don’t have a lot to look forward to when I finally die. I’ll either wake up a crazed vampire, who will seek out the people I love, to eat them. Or, I get to...

But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each other, fell on her ear, her eyes sought the sky, and she heard a voice saying, “Majella!

The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn’t want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was...

The sooner the rebirth, the prettier the corpse.

I once asked a rabbi in a large congregation which prayers he used with the dying. “You mean the Mourner’s Kaddish?” he asked, referring to the prayer recited on behalf of the deceased. “No,” I...

I wanted to play with death, like a child with a new toy, I wanted to push all the buttons and see what would happen.

The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.

I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that your house hasn’t burned down, you don’t have cancer, and your daughter hasn’t been raped or murdered. The bad news is...

Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

And, like him, she’s going to get herself killed.” – Gena Evans, Nowhere to Run

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I...

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

How many of us suffered to death?How many of them gained more wealth?How many of us mourned?How many of them earned?How many times we suffered such a pain?How many times they will do this again?They...

I buried the lasagna, because it was better than disposing of a dead body. I’ve been burned in a relationship, but never in an oven. I’ll try harder.

I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.

A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon—a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity—and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and nameless marble, where...

The beautiful part about killing someone with an icicle is the murder weapon melts and then evaporates. And your assassination can be fruit flavored!

The human animal is a beast that dies and if he’s got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back...

To you, death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you’ll never see, the children you’ll never hold, the wife you’ll never love. It’s frightening to almost lose your future, and it’s...

The flashing black line on an empty Word document reminds me that my life is counting down second by second, and that if I don’t write I’ll have wasted my time here on earth.

The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the life of humanity will be marked by the monstrous war...

When their mouths collided, the earth shifted, and she felt like she was coming face-to-face with death, and the brush was sweet, while he experienced life in the most shattering way.

If you have to dig to find yourself, you are probably dead.

All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we’re afraid to teach them.

Morbidity and Mortality RoundsForgive me, body before me, for this.Forgive me for my bumbling hands, unschooledin how to touch: I meant to understandwhat fever was, not love. Forgive me formy stare, but when I look...

Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they...

Emptiness is this world’s greatest discovery. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?

Jana looked beyond him and saw Mars. She ate Mars for breakfast with her eyes.

If I asked God to see into the future 50 years, and I couldn’t see myself, I wouldn’t assume I was dead. No, I’d assume I was simply hiding.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

The walls were coming down around me, but still, I couldn’t imagine telling the truth. Not now. It was too late. How can I tell Mom and Dad what we’d done? It would ruin everything....

May be the power lies in the hands of the one who holds the gun… so he just presses the trigger whenever the slightest streak of anger passes his mind… and after a few haunting...

Bad business last night. Chances are, that would be all Graham had to say about the death of a man he had known his whole life. These folk knew all about death. They killed their...

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button.

When my parents passed on, and we read their wills, we discovered something we didn’t at all expect, especially from our devoutly Catholic mother: they had both left instructions that their bodies be donated to...

Most things may never happen: this one will.

My friends love me terribly, and their grief will be a screaming storm if I die.