Absence Quote by Naomi Shihab Nye

“For me, the dying part wasn’t so horrible. I was only in pain for a few moments before death arrived. For me, the difficult…

— Suzannah Daniels

“Death was hard, I got that, but it was only hard for those you left behind. Life was what was really difficult. Everyone here…

— Bailey Ardisone

“People say they want to die in their own home. But me, I was ready for the hospital. The sterilized sheets, the machines, the…

— Kevin Brockmeier

“I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The room full…

— Phindiwe Nkosi

“People around me died, usually in horrible and bloody ways.”

— Ilona Andrews

“I want to tell them that almost dying is awfully easy. Its the living that's hard.”

— Jennifer Holm

“Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how.”

— Ann VanderMeer

“After so many years of living with death, I’d come to understand that the easiest death wasn’t necessarily the best.”

— Paul Kalanithi

“death arrived on schedule on a Sunday afternoon, and, as always, it was easier than we thought it would be.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home,…

— Caroline Flohr

“Trying to survive in the company of a man who didn’t care if he died as long as it happened quickly was more than…

— K.R. Griffiths

“I found the best thing I could do was just to type away at my own work and let the dying die as they…

— Charles Bukowski