I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him...

What happens if a car comes? We die.

Haven’t you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they...

This was how I would die. Strangled by an attractive, seminaked woman inside a fridge with a giant tarantula in the middle of a sea of carnivorous jam. As I blacked out, all I could...

President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.

Where ego comes in, loving kindness departs. So wherever there is ego, there is very little space for true bliss and true happiness because true bliss and true happiness isn’t exclusive to the attachments the...

Rather than you smoking a cigarette, the cigarette is really smoking you.

At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

I don’t feel so sad when somebody dies, Julio, because they fly away to explore the stars and planets. When it’s our turn we join them in exploring the universe.

When I die, I would love to die smiling. If however I forget this, I hope I have someone there to make me smile.

Families that feel together, heal together.

Everything is only a transition

If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the word suddenly, a light coming onin an empty room. The...

It means, Day, that you’re dying.

Don’t risk your life for those that doesn’t love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death.

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a...

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It’s straightforward. But people almost never say, “Die!” Paltry, prudent hypocrites!

Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I...

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and–what will perhaps make you wonder more–it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

My uncle’s dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can’t tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Part of this experience involves your being able to say to a person who is dying, “You are loved. You are beautiful. You are like a newborn babe, going into another realm. Release now anyone,...

Dreams link us to those who have already left this life.

The whole world is dying. Just too slowly and naturally for my liking. Somebody should poison the food by genetically modifying it somehow. But even if that happened, nobody would be stupid enough to buy...

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?””I don’t know. I’ve never done either.

Kao da ga je ugušila neizrečena rečenica”, rekao je neko kasnije, na sahrani ili, možda, u crkvi, dok su čekali sveštenika. (Kraj života)

I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face...

They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

I’m always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can’t see anything…the spell of ignorance

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

Their’s not to make reply,Their’s not to reason why,Their’s but to do and die.

That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

You can call me Grandpa, if that does it for you.

Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.

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

I don’t want to merely exist, Parker. I want to live. I want to leave the world with that one sweet moment.

And as if he had read her thoughts, the old man murmured, ‘What a blessing it is to die in your own bed, under your own roof, with your family surrounding you, full of the...

…nothing more excruciating when you are fighting for your life than to have healthy people round you, squabbling over futilities. Who do you love best, and who most do you want with you? Blithering idiots:...

His own true hidden reality that he had desired to know grew palpable, recognizable. It seemed to him just this: a great, glad, abounding hope that he had saved his brother; too expansive to be...

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can’t move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been...

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Let’s start a new family.

We Let the Boat DriftI set out for the pond, crossing the ravine where seedling pines start up like sparks between the disused rails of the Boston and Maine.The grass in the field would make...

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

The Sunlight on the GardenThe sunlight on the gardenHardens and grows cold,We cannot cage the minuteWithin its nets of gold,When all is toldWe cannot beg for pardon.Our freedom as free lancesAdvances towards its end;The earth...

I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn’t seem fair that we only...