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“They stared at each other. Every ocean, every river, every minute they had walked together was in their gaze. He said nothing and she said nothing. She kneeled by him, her hands on him, on his ches...”
“It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.”
“When those who name dead people have gone, there just remains the calmness of foreign cemeteries, in which nothing appears familiar and nothing frightens you.”
“But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting...”
“Life is flinching in the midst of breathing, gasping at the thought of dying. Its climbing ropeless up sheer rock faces, groping for the next finger-hole of hope. Steady on! Only a thousand feet to...”
“And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.”
“Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay.”
“If you won't live for yourself than do it for me. If you don't want to live for me than choose something else. Anything is better than losing another person to that fake paradise that comes after d...”
“Every flower returns to sleep with the earth.”
“We want all the benefits of the resurrection without acknowledging our dependence on God as mortal creatures.”
“They say time heals all, But time is our only enemy; breathe deep and find strength to smile tonight, for the morning may never come”
“It was a good day to die.I was in love. The house was clean”
“Small said, "But what about when we are dead and gone, will you love me then, does love go on?"Large (replied) "Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. S...”
“...the phone rang.When the phone rang so early in the morning, it oftentimes meant somebody was dead. An elderly person had passed in the night. A Friday night traffic fatality. The families of dec...”
“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”
“This is the man who will be my grandfatherthe man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.”
“But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We d...”
“It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.”
“ 'If life is pain, one could say that killing is an act of compassion. I look forward to my own death, you know. But dying is like losing you virginity. You can only do it once. I'm saving it for t...”
“Yes, it will all end one day; but today is worth living.”
