He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she would… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I was born late - what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There's three of us children, but… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
“Every bit of pain and joy you have ever known lifts you up, and every moment you have lived comes together, and… — Christy Ann Conlin Copy Share Image
We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I decided then that if the two people I loved most were safe, I could leave this world. The dead could finally… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
For fear that death might cut me off before the time for attempting its development I leave all my worldly goods in… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man… — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think about killing myself Because I have no reason to live But then I think, I have no reason to… — Pearl Bird Copy Share Image
I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from… — Harry Johnston Copy Share Image
Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“He has been dying for a very, very, very long time, and his span came to an end as all eras must.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“…and he wasn't reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. "Mebbe, mebbe," says poor Ben, "but… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Kugel was a firm believer that death was not always a bad thing - that life often reached such levels of crapitude… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family.… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true.… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“Death is tired of waiting for me. Now, I must leave before it gets angry and curses me with immortality.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the… — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. — Florence King Copy Share Image
“But it was getting pretty hard to grieve someone who wouldn’t just get on with the dying.” — Devon Monk Copy Share Image