Casts Quote by John Adams

“I acted not, as I most often did, as death’s enemy, but as its ambassador. I had to help those families understand that the…

— Paul Kalanithi

“He did not deserve to die, and his death absolutely proves that life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who…

— Matthew Quick

“A man lived or died according to his decisions in life.”

— Lorraine Heath

“In America, my initial impression was that death or the possibility of it always seemed to come as a surprise, as if we took…

— Abraham Verghese

“Death was constant, unprejudiced to age, race, or creed.”

— Jessica Fortunato

“We were all ready to die for the country but what we did not discover was we have to live for the country.”

— Jim Paredes

“But in reality, when faced with death and the great unknown that came after, my survival instinct snatched wildly at whatever lifeline was offered.…

— Julie Kagawa

“...and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse–hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said,…

— George Orwell

“It seems as if no man had ever died in America before, for in order to die you must first have lived. These men,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“My lifeless body - a boat with sunken anchors, without leader on board, without harbor, without country, only my moist sails afloat in that…

— Camelia C

“As we left the death watch, it occurred to me that we were all homeless in some way. It seemed that we were all…

— Richard LeMieux

“What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?”

— Elin Hilderbrand