When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the trick of karma.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

The guard looked down at the scarlet bloodstains blooming on his chest. He appeared to think of something that he needed to say, but as his lips began to form the words, his knees gave...

Life and death are something everyone will experience. It is living that only few will have embraced

The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive.

Death. It is a strange stalker, one that we spend our whole lives running from, some more successful than others.

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can...

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the...

I spend a lot of time wondering what dying feels like. What dying sounds like. If I’ll burst like those notes, let out my last cries of pain, and then go silent forever. Or maybe...

Losing you’re co-remember meant losing the memory itself.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

That’s not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, Can you live without her?

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

Mach dir keine Sorgen. Du hast zuviel und zuwenig gesehen, wie alle Menschen vor dir. Du hast zuviel geweint, vielleicht auch zuwenig, wie alle Menschen vor dir. Vielleicht hast du zuviel geliebt, und gehaßt –...

This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.

When she awakes, she knows where she is. This place, this ancient place sears one’s soul with recognition. ‘Heaven’ seems an inadequate word for it, but that is what it is known as.

Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

We wanted more than anything else in the world to be normal, but we failed.” The 1960’s and 1970’s were very strange times, but Mandy missed it all, she missed the days when Super-8 was...

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart.

I told my mother he looked like a deflated balloon. Greta said he looked like a small gray moth wrapped in a spider’s web. That’s because everything about Greta is more beautiful, even the way...

The merciful Providence – or whatever power there is in the universe – has so ordained things that our little world will go on without us. Indeed, it will not miss us for long. It...

Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face – the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man – all present still, preserved like fossils on...

Dying was misery. Death was that period at the end of the sentence.

I know there’s no heaven. I know it all turns to nothingness. But I fear there will be some remnant of me left within that void. Left conscious by some random fluke. Something that will...

Holy Dying”, extract from chapter IV.I (The Practice of Patience) para 5.

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living...

Only the dying know what real loneliness is.

I don’t want–to go–I don’t want–to leave you–Eden–

Sex doesn’t satisfy for a lifetime, the more you have it, the more you want it. And the more you have it, the more you die out.

I want to tell them that almost dying is awfully easy. Its the living that’s hard.

Going insane would be worse than dying. At least death is clear and final

Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that’s to be died.

There is no reason for a sound faith to be irrational. A useful faith should not be blind, but should be well aware of its grounds. A sound faith should be able to use scientific...

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?’…’Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.

I am not worried about dying, what I am worried about is not living

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.

The best way to die is when your living

The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I’m not. I’m only afraid of dying wrong.

When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with a shrill scream forfeited its life for the sight of the bacon, all...

After my first coaching experience, the field looked more like Gettysburg than a normal defeat. But it wasn’t that bad, as only about half my team lay dead, while the rest were merely dying.

In the midst of life we are in death,'” said Miss Ophelia.

He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the barest traces of what had once been a life. His body...

I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would have been safe, and I would have done the one...

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him – six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.

Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.