444 quotes found
“For years afterward, I had dreams in which my mother appeared in strange forms, her features sewn onto other beings in combinations that seemed both grotesque and profound: as a slippery white fish...”
“If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.”
“The biggest magic of the world is DEATH.”
“Do what is right and what is good." -- Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield.”
“I replayed the moment I first saw him at the picnic throughout our years together. As corny as it may sound, from the first glance we shared near the cake stand at the picnic, the two of us remaine...”
“[W]ishing for immortality won't make life last any longer.”
“Upon learning that her cancer had spread to her spine, Paula prepared her thirteen year-old son for her death by writing him a letter of farewell that moved me to years. In her final paragraph she ...”
“We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.”
“One day you will be the only one in the room not living.”
“When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.This is the duality of loss.”
“No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him.”
“Im dying everydayMy breakfast are cigarettes and coffeeMy lunch is depressionMy snacks are regretsMy dinner are memories and angerMy night is non stoping tearsSleep is my deathWaking up the next da...”
“It is not normal for a body to remain horizontal; beyond a certain length of time it attracts concern. Death and burial ('laid to rest') are seen as the natural horizontal states, which is surely w...”
“Life has to end," she said. "Love doesn't.”
“Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.”
“So many things that are so dramatic or exciting when you read about them actually happen so simply and quietly. We humans like to consider ourselves important to creation and to the world, and we e...”
“Jns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!”
“Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life.”
“Death is easy, living difficult.”
“It's a strange experience, dying. People talk about how it creeps over you like a warm blanket. That's not true. It starts out warm, but then it hits you like a bucket of icy water after stepping o...”
