May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

When people are dying, bureaucracy should be thrown out of the water.

Rings and magazines; keychains and umbrellas; hats and glasses; rattles and radios. They looked like different things, but Ralph thought they were really all the same thing: the faint, sorrowing voices of people who had...

In the distance, Amanda heard the sirens. Just a little bit longer. She didn’t know what was wrong with her, but she was scared of dying before she had the chance to tell Ryker goodbye....

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?

If she was going to die she wanted to go out with chocolate in one hand and a shopping bag in the other.

…gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27)

Sterven is echter de eenzaamste gebeurtenis van het leven. We worden er niet alleen door van anderen afgescheiden, maar daarnaast stelt het ons ook bloot aan een nog angstaanjagender vorm van eenzaamheid: het is een...

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...

You’re right,” Early said. “Those are two different things.””What are?”, I asked, surprised that he thought I was right about ANYTHING.”Dying and sleeping. A person should be able to do one without the other sneaking...

And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying

This is your war now.’ I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?’Some war,’ he said dismissively. ‘What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer?...

The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours.

He was astonished at how calm he found he was. Fear of death had always energised him, making him move far more quickly than his body should have been capable of, accelerating his reactions and...

You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into the soil.

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

Well, we all gotta die. You jest gotta hope you die good.

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

Making good use of our limited time – the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each day – is the key to developing inner steadiness and calm.

Death is not the end death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide

Silence is a lie that screams at the light.

I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time...

He wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that was left to him to ease his passage into whatever lay...

Yeah.You got me through

But we who remain shall grow oldWe shall know the coldOf cheerlessWinter and the rain of Autumn and the stingOf poverty, of love despised and of disgraces,And mirrors showing stained and aging faces, And the...

In this world, you have to die to find peace.

Death is beautiful, part of life… No, it is sad. It’s sad when anyone dies. Even though every single human dies. So it’s really not that sad.

Right, well, he’d been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, ‘You seem to be feeling better this morning,’ and Isben looked at her and said, ‘On the contrary,’ and then he...

We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.

It can’t be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!

All of these people, it was as if they were all turning to gold, all marked with an invisible X on their foreheads, as of course we are, too, the place and time yet to...

…why can’t I stop all the moving and look out over the vast arrangements and find by the contours and colors and qualities of light where my father is, not to solve anything but just...

Listen to me, Jez. There’s no reason for you to die-“Wood…poison.”No it isn’t! Not to humans. And you’re half human. You’re vampire enough to survie something that would kill a human, but you’re human enough...

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.

If (or rather when) you move to death, you’ll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)

I don’t mind, I’m not supposed to mind, anyway. Mearth already told me that eventually I would want to be dead, that it was inevitable… still, I sometimes wish that I could have done something...

The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy.

You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.

I know I’m not supposed to argue with you when you talk about dying. And yes, you could die, Neil. But I could get hit by a bus and die tomorrow. Either we need to...

I am so afraid.” Trajan slowly pushed his glasses onto the top of his head and brought his lips softly to hers.

And all the while one spirit uttered this,The other one did weep so, that, for pity,I swooned away as if I had been dying,And fell, even as a dead body falls.

I’m not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off in the course of our brief wrestle. It looked so pathetic there by itself...

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

Grief does not change you. It reveals you.

It’s incorrigible but inevitable how one gets used to everyone dying.

Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could’ve sworn that was where he’d been the past ten years.

I felt a numb shock as I drove home anxious to get my chocolate flowers and wondering how my mother arranged to get them delivered to me at the exact time of her passing as...

I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how...