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.

A viagem não acaba nunca. Só os viajantes acabam

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This...

There are a few things I’ve learned over the years. One is that time doesn’t stop for anyone; hurdling forward and onward, unstoppable and catastrophic.

I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link...

I’ve never known anyone who was saved who did not first save herself.

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...