“The future says: Dear mortals; I know you are busy with your colourful lives; I have no wish to waste the little… — Nick Drake Copy Share Image
The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Death was both kind and cruel: the overture was pure torment for anyone involved, but the conclusion was merciful.” — L.A. Witt Copy Share Image
You can only see it in the eyes of reflection. You can only touch it in the hands of your own. You… — Babloo Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal -… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Death will reflect the ultimate culmination, the crescendo of your whole life. In a condensed form, it is all that you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair… — Mike D Copy Share Image
“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It was all a big joke. I could see that now. There was no rhyme or reason to whether we lived or… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“The Holy Longing Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, Because the massman will mock it right away. I praise what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
And this is law, I will maintain, Until my dying day, Sir, That whatsoever king shall reign, I'll be the Vicar of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love. It is love. It is love.” — Akif Kichloo Copy Share Image
“Here again, the difference between the effective and the virtual, between mourning and its possibility, seems fragile and porous. The anguished apprehension… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
“No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!" And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Boiled food is life,’ Levi-Strauss writes, ‘roast food death.’ He reports finding countless examples in the world’s folklore of ‘cauldrons of immortality,’… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I thought more and more about impermanence and death - not in the form of a depressing nihilism, but as a contemplation… — Andrew Bowen Copy Share Image
“Baste! enough! I sup, I wet, I humect, I moisten my gullet, I drink, and all for fear of dying. Drink always… — François Rabelais Copy Share Image
“What is it about immortality? With the right sword and shield, we think we can fend off anger, fear, and hatred. If… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death. — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
The quantum death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. 24 hours before he was "officially" declared dead it was announced on the internet that… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“Is it not the singularity of life that terrifies us? Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies… — John Updike Copy Share Image
O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes. — Meera Copy Share Image
This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
On your death bed, you will think about all of those days you didn't check Twitter. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“happens when the Spiral is knocked out of balance. Earthmaker created the universe to have equal portions—Pain and Happiness, Birth and Death,… — W. Michael Gear Copy Share Image
“You're going to go living. Because living is the challenge, Josie. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Would you guys choose to walk away from possibly the most incredible encounter of your lifetime just because you had to let… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’ll have one of my men drop a car off for you.” “Thanks. I’ll try not to lose it.” “If you can… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“Losing Grandma, just when I'd found her again. A waterfall of flowers brightened her funeral, but they couldn't disguise the stench of… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the… — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image