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.

That’s all any of us have in the end, isn’t it? there is death ahead of all of us. And so we live.

peace of mind and heartarriveswhen we accept what is:having beenborn into thisstrange lifewe must acceptthe wasted gamble of ourdaysand take some satisfaction inthe pleasure ofleaving it allbehind.

Life is but a dream for the dead.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that’s the beauty of it, too.

The toughest journey is a spiritual journey.

Media vita in morte sumus

Yaşlanmaktan bu kadar korkan ben, nerden biliyorum ki yaşlanacak kadar ömrüm olduğunu?

O fim de uma viagem é apenas o começo de outra

Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn’t.

No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend’s.

The path i walk lights up in flames

What is this?! I couldn’t die back when I would’ve been glad to die anywhere, anytime, but now that dying would take hardly any effort, suddenly I can’t afford to yet? What the hell am...

Tra la vita – bocche di carpe che deglutiscono – e la morte – vegetali in lenta putrefazione – tu che cosa scegli?Che cosa ti dà meno voglia di vomitare?

The dead tread softly… And those stalking the living tread even more lightly.

Joe knew what the nod meant-this was why they became outlaws. To live moments the insurance salesman of the world, the truck drivers, and lawyers and bank tellers and carpenters and realtors would never know....

Death will always be a part of life, and life will always be a part of death

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

As I witness the dead of beloved ones, it makes be become more conscious that life indeed has an end.

The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

our story is old onewe can feel thiscan not touch .

The ancients said that for persons who cultivated body and mind, and who are virtuous and honorable, death is an experience of liberation, a long-awaited rest from a lifetime of labors. Death helps the unscrupulous...

If you have a warm and caring heart, you’re loved ones will ensure you never depart. For long after you’ve turned that final page you’ll still be right there on center stage.

I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier,...

Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you’re alone.

The place of horror turns out to be no more than a green scoop, sometimes shadowed, sometimes shining with the bilberries and grass within it, as if a mouth had opened from which streamed a...

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

The Scorpion?The Grasshopper?Which way will she go?

The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems...

Laughter and books and wine are holy things; and living is good; and death is a breathlessness with the whole adventure of finding everywhere the traces of one great beauty…

We must make time to reflect on life.Someday this life will be gone.

The greatest loss is the lost of life.

You just want to give up, he said when he was able to speak. Only you keep going. You still have to get up in the morning and pour the cereal in the bowls. You...

It’s only amatter of time, and God’s timming never second best

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.

It’s not that people don’t know when they’ll die. It’s that they don’t seem to know they’ll die.

Careful with your life.

La edad es una ladrona implacable. Justo cuando empiezas a tomar el pulso a la vida te arranca la fuerza de las piernas y te encorva la espalda.Produce dolores y enturbia la cabeza y silenciosamente...

La femme au foulard m’est devenue indispensable. Toute cette hygiène de ne rien espérer est peut-être un peu ridicule. Ne rien espérer de la vie, pour ne pas la risquer; se considérer comme mort, pour...

…wszystko jest stratą czasu, chyba że człowiek pieprzy się w najlepsze, tworzy w najlepsze, ma się jak najlepiej albo zmierza w kierunku ułudy pod tytułem miłość i szczęście. Wszyscy kończymy w gnojówce porażki – czy...

Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue of the sky, full of stars, all solemn and golden, which extended their radiance unconcernedly into the distance....

There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.

Life is defined by time, appreciate the beauty of time.

As we witness the death of departed souls, other people will observe our departure from the world.

he made the poor choice of deciding that he couldn’t live either. You can make a better choice. You can choose to get up and live.

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