Life's like us We find it- and then the death A poem for a…

“«Like a fossil tree From which we gather no flowers Sad has been my life Fated no fruit to produce.» Death poem composed by…

— Stephen Turnbull

“I cannot pretend that I understood my mother at the end of her life. I was trying to follow the goals she had set…

— Liza Dalby

“The salamanders, like tiny birds, locked into formation, fly down into the endless mysteries of the transforming water, and how could anyone believe that…

— Mary Oliver

Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.

— Matsuo Basho

There is something about poverty that smells like death.Dead dreams dropping off theheart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around thefeet; impulses…

— Zora Neale Hurston

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Ill send myself in irrational spirals about things I have no control over, like death.

— Florence And The Machine

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

— Dennis Quaid

“Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.”

— Agnostic Zetetic

Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand.

— Yolanda Hadid

People like death and mayhem.

— Anonymous

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.

— Richelle Mead

“end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things,”

— Mohsin Hamid

And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not…

— Anonymous