I have spent much of my life around death. I have sat with people as they died. I have listened to others relate near-death experiences. I have studied theology and am aware of what scriptures...

I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.

The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change.

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.

I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not living.”-Jared Alexander

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed...

Life on earth is temporary. May we pursue peace and live in harmony with one another.

Our legacy is not found in all the ‘stuff’ we’ve accumulated on our life’s journey. It’s written in the memories of those whose lives we’ve touched along the way.

My chest tightens to the point I fear my heart will suffocate from the pressure of it. Society’s standards are the total opposite from how I was raised. The boy who I thought to be...

Every war is the war for whoever’s lived through it.

I’ll never leave this Earth without a fight or at least pretend to for all of those in sight.

Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet...

A day without family is like a year without rain

Prisoner of Her Own Captivity

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

She promised him she would love him until she was physically unable to anymore and then after when all she could do was hold his photograph.

We all share three things in common: We are breathing, we have a heart, and most importantly we have twenty four hours to live. With those things, we should not have an excuse as to...

Do we reflect on life? Someday this life will be gone.

We have only one life to live, we must live it now.

I would like to disagree. I would like to argue. But that’s the problem with the dead. You can’t fight with them, you can’t reason with them, you can’t prove them wrong or yourself right,...

Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. “I fry mine in butter!” indeed.

I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness — they’re heartbreaking.[…] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness...

Matty just rolled his eyes and walked over to his older brother. “Why is it when everyone thinks they’re on their death bed, they suddenly find Jesus?”Jayne shrugged and replied, “Because that’s where he likes...

When you’re young your reality is accepted by most. When you’re older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true...

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I’ll see you there.”I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I’d always wanted....

She listens to the delicate fluttering of sparrows’ wings, tiny messengers. The sound reminds her of life – struggling, beating, rising, flying, and now dissolving into space.

in that cold autistic dark.

Kaže da se svijet dijeli na ljude koji zamišljaju svoj sprovod i one koji ga ne zamišljaju, te da pametni i umjetnički nastrojeni ljudi spadaju u prvu kategoriju.

Life is in different stages. Every stage of life is the foundation for the next stage of life.Every stage of live must be fully-lived.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself – Death.

Life moved, as inconstant and fickle as Wind Baby, frolicking, sleeping, weeping, but never truly still. Never solid or finished. Always like water flowing from one place to the next. Seed and fruit. Rain and...

I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness, to the néant, and it seemed to me that my own death was...

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

I want to wake dead people to live alive”. Seriously, I can make you living.

Fair… You’d be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother...

I remember when my aunt died, the thing that pissed me off the most was going to get groceries the next day and seeing all those people who didn’t care… didn’t understand why I was...

The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators.

Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation.Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don’t make me go through high school...

Ali život se nikome, razumete li me, nikome na ovom svetu ne duguje. Ni majci, ni deci, ni prijeteljima, ni jedom idealu! Život je moje neprikosnoveno pravo! U šta i kako ću ga satreti, moja...

If I had a choice, I wouldn’t be here… I wouldn’t be anywhere.

Death is not something you get over. It’s the rip that exposes life in a before and after chasm, and all you can do is try to exist as best you can in the after.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.

And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure...

But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she’d promised. She remembered that it wasn’t enough just to think at them: you had to say the words out...

I’ve been to weddings and I’ve been to wakes in either setting Love takes no breaks.