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“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
“We are thankful to come here for rest, sir," said Jenny. "You see, you don't know what the rest of this place is to us; does he, Lizzie? It's the quiet, and the air.""The quiet!" repeated Fledgeby,...”
“He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”
“The flowering chocolate drink is foaming,Tobacco flowers are passed round,If my heart tastes them,I will be intoxicatedListen, I am alone and tormented,May I not go to the place of the fleshlessAlo...”
“No one here gets out alive.”
“Tears sting my eyes once more, building up and rolling over my cheeks with the heat of a dying star. Isnt that what death is? Its forgetting. Its letting go. We make peace with the dead to say good...”
“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right”
“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spo...”
“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
“Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're ...”
“What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.”
“I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile lifeachieving a sense of peace within oneself.”
“Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-cappd towers, the gor...”
“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble...”
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
“count no man happy until he be dead.”
“At liminality, at a transitional point between his last night dream and reality, he realizes he has made a big mistake and happiness is possible without death. (Coming back to himself.)”
