Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.
He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. In...
Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.
Life is beautiful. Death is astonishing.And love is the just breaths taken in between
They say time heals all, But time is our only enemy; breathe deep and find strength to smile tonight, for the morning may never come
But you'll see, you can feel time on the wind it whips up as it passes. We don't worry about time or the wind. Nothing can touch us any more. As long as people remember us, we are here. Anyway, it's t...
Death is our friend, precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.
Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterward. But I was still the one who was going to die. I thought of her soft, beautiful eyes. when she lo...
In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illne...
Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear
We walk on the ground and give sparse recognition to the mud that will be the eternal homes for the bodies that we praise so much. Ground might not worth much but it holds billions of history and some...
The scariest thing about death is not dying, it's the uncertainty of what happens after
My mother died of colon cancer one week after my eleventh birthday, and that fact has shaped my life. All that I have become and much that I have not become, I trace directly or indirectly to her deat...
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
Life is not profound without its own tragedy. It humbles us. Sets the bar for our introspection. Keeps us from believing we are gods. Puts our egos in check.
Those what yielded the extra lolly were gevyn a clothe to put over themselves when they dost cash in their chips, and were told to staye where they lay until they be picked up. - From "Three Interesti...
All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard...
People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.
It's not that I am not moved by these things, that I don't them in my life. But lately, their power has diminished." - 140
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