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.

A tired man lay down his headin a dusty room so dim,and for so long his wife did shakeand yell to waken him.Meanwhile his thoughts, his dreams, did stirof sandy, red bullfights,of powder-blasts in the...

but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain...

Fear and hopelessness washed over her. She was looking her own mortality in the face, and it was a horrifying thing to do.

Instead of falling to the ground like a heavy doll, as Kermin had seen the prisoners do at the Chetnik executions, his mother shrank into herself, a reverse blossoming, coming to rest in a sitting...

Let my heiress have full rights,Live in my house, sing songs that I composed.Yet how slowly my strength ebbs,How the tortured breast craves air.The love of my friends, my enemies’ rancorAnd the yellow roses in...

blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear, in shadow and out. and on and through everything everywhere the sun shines...

live to the fullest or die;and die you will anyway, so start living!

Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy delicatessens with slanted display cabinets full of trays that hold soft wet lumpy matter in pale...

When I asked her what was the matter? answered, she didn’t know; but she felt so afraid of dying!

I think that dying is the easy part of life; for in waking each day and living in every moment, therein lies the challenge

I don’t think you’re dying,” I said. “I think you’ve just got a touch of cancer.He smiled. Gallows humor.

I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.

Trying to get stuff straight right at the end when you never cared all through your life. Trying to get into heaven on the affirmative action plan.

Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?” (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)

Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.

One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them...