Attachment Quote by Lisa Alther

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

— Ram Dass

Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

— Leonid Andreyev

We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion…

— Meghan O'Rourke

We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.

— Yasmin Mogahed

It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way…

— Gail Caldwell

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

— Mignon McLaughlin

this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that death cuts…

— Marquis de Sade

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The living always get over the dead. That’s what the dead never realize. If ever the dead did come back, they’d only have been…

— Anonymous

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

— John Quincy Adams

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be…

— Ram Dass