I know a little of living and a little of dying. I know how to survive, i have mastered it as a soldier gains mastery of his weapons. Yet i prefer dying, for in dying...

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

Are we adequately prepared? … No. We do not yet have a vaccine ready to go. If the pandemic happened next week, the public would be outraged that we waited and ignored the concerns and...

May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

Flowers, cold from the dew,And autumn’s approaching breath,I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids,Which haven’t faded yet.In their nights, fragrantly resinous,Entwined with delightful mystery,They will breathe in her springlikeExtraordinary beauty.But in a whirlwind of sound...

oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)

It’s taken years for me to understand that dying doesn’t end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another’s...

I’m dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy.

…[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

Just make sure that the thing you’re living for is worth dying for.” –Levi

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It...

I miss your face. That big bright smile. You always had it, in any weather. It’s hard for me to find one these days. These cold November days. Except when I think of you.

I learned that dying is just a part of our journey of life. We are all on this journey and dying is a part of it for each of us. That does not mean that...

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

So that’s it. That’s the big secret. I tried to kill myself on New Year’s eve. Just like Sadie did last night. Only she really did it. I don’t know all the detatils, just the...

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...

Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.

I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he’d ever done. His greatest sin. I wanted to ask him if there was any reason...

I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don’t use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table; indeed they may not...

Because through the heavy water, I heard the sound of an angel calling my name, calling me to the only heaven I wanted.

We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncanny things that have nothing to do with the rest of creation, horrors that poison the world by sowing...

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.

It’s different when the person you love dies. There’s an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there’s the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help,...

But you’re dead,” said Harry.”Oh yes,” said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.”Then…I’m dead too?””Ah,” said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. “That is the question, isn’t it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.”They looked at each other,...

A rose symbolizes my love for you, because it’s dying.

From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was...

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side...

What’s the advantage of fear or the benefit of regret or the bonus of granting misery a foothold even if death is embracing you? My old abbot used to say, “Life is only precious if...

if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just what they were thinking and feeling, then they would just have looked into...

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time.

Tell Hugh,” she whispered.Tell Hugh your freaking self! He’s right here! And you’re not going anywhere.

A sematary,” I say. “A what?” Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their graves. Must be a hundred, maybe two, in orderly rows and well-kept grass. Settler life is hard...

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is...

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being...

When we understand that Peace is a state of mind we understand true Peace.

Top question of the dying: “What made me sick?

Dying isn’t like living; it requires no effort at all.

Rolling flat onto his back, Drake shuddered. Then he inhaled deeply. He stared up at the night sky. “We’re going to win,” he said, his voice calmer, less strained. “This is nothing. Keep going. They...

So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying.- from the story “De Composition

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

I want to be a bird that is not afraid of falling since it’s been flying for so long.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

…and he wasn’t reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. “Mebbe, mebbe,” says poor Ben, “but I’m sorter used to the imperfections of this one.

The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there’s a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn’t.

It’s true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am...

Life went on, despite all the dying.

I’m a walking, talking enigma. We’re a dying breed.

I had to hope there was more to life than death. More to living than not dying.